The EU-Emotion Voice Database

Overview

Journal Behav Res Methods

Publisher Springer

Specialty Social Sciences

Date 2018 May 2

PMID 29713953

Citations 4

Authors

Amandine Lassalle

Delia Pigat

Helen OReilly

Steve Berggen

Shimrit Fridenson-Hayo

Shahar Tal

Sigrid Elfstrom

Anna Rade

Ofer Golan

Sven Bolte

Simon Baron-Cohen

Daniel Lundqvist

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Abstract

In this study, we report the validation results of the EU-Emotion Voice Database, an emotional voice database available for scientific use, containing a total of 2,159 validated emotional voice stimuli. The EU-Emotion voice stimuli consist of audio-recordings of 54 actors, each uttering sentences with the intention of conveying 20 different emotional states (plus neutral). The database is organized in three separate emotional voice stimulus sets in three different languages (British English, Swedish, and Hebrew). These three sets were independently validated by large pools of participants in the UK, Sweden, and Israel. Participants' validation of the stimuli included emotion categorization accuracy and ratings of emotional valence, intensity, and arousal. Here we report the validation results for the emotional voice stimuli from each site and provide validation data to download as a supplement, so as to make these data available to the scientific community. The EU-Emotion Voice Database is part of the EU-Emotion Stimulus Set, which in addition contains stimuli of emotions expressed in the visual modality (by facial expression, body language, and social scene) and is freely available to use for academic research purposes.

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