Berlin Database of Emotional Speech

Here you can have a look into our database of emotional speech. It contains about 500 utterances spoken by actors in a happy, angry, anxious, fearful, bored and disgusted way as well as in a neutral version. You can choose utterances from 10 different actors and ten different texts.

To start just click on Emo-DB in the navigation frame.

To see a documentation of the project and to read how to use this Website please click on Documentation.  
 
 

A complete description of the database can be found in:
 
Felix Burkhardt, Astrid Paeschke, Miriam Rolfes, Walter Sendlmeier und Benjamin Weiss
A Database of German Emotional Speech
Proceedings Interspeech 2005, Lissabon, Portugal

There are several publications giving further details about the development and analysis of this database. Please refer to:

• Paeschke, A., Sendlmeier, W.F, (1999):
  F₀-Konturen bei emotionaler Sprechweise
  Proceedings DAGA, Berlin
   
  
• Paeschke, A., Kienast, M., Sendlmeier, W.F (1999):
  F₀-contours in emotional speech
  Proceedings of the ICPhS in San Francisco, S. 929
   
  
• Burkhardt, F., Sendlmeier, W. F. (2000):
  Verification of Acoustical Correlates of Emotional Speech using Formant-Synthesis
  published twice: in Proc. ISCA Workshop (ITRW) on Speech and Emotion, Belfast 2000, and in Speech and Signals - Aspects of Speech Synthesis, Ed. W.F.Sendlmeier, Hector FFM
   
  
• Kienast, Miriam, Sendlmeier, Walter F. (2000):
  Acoustical analysis of spectral and temporal changes in emotional speech
  Proc. ISCA Workshop (ITRW) on Speech and Emotion, Belfast 2000, p. 92-97
   
  
• Paeschke, A., Sendlmeier, W.F (2000):
  Prosodic characteristics of Emotional Speech; Measurements of Fundamental Frequency Movements
  Proceedings of the ISCA-Workshop "On Speech and Emotion" in Belfast, p. 75
   
  
• Burkhardt, Felix (2001):
  Simulation emotionaler Sprechweise mit Sprachsynthesesystemen
  Shaker Verlag Aachen, Dissertation TU Berlin
   
  
• Paeschke, A., Sendlmeier, W.F (2001):
  Einschwingphase von Vokalen bei emotionaler Sprechweise
  Tagungsband zur ESSV 2001, Bonn
   
  
• Sendlmeier, W. F. (2001):
  Phonetische Variation als Funktion unterschiedlicher Sprechstile
  Tagungsband zur ESSV, p. 23-35. w.e.b., Dresden
   
  
• Kienast, Miriam (2002):
  Phonetische Veränderungen in emotionaler Sprechweise
  Shaker Verlag Aachen, Dissertation TU Berlin
   
  
• Paeschke, Astrid (2003):
  Prosodische Analyse emotionaler Sprechweise
  Reihe Mündliche Kommunikation, Band 1, Logos Verlag Berlin, Dissertation TU Berlin
   
  
• Paeschke, A. (2004):
  Global Trend of Fundamental Frequency in Emotional Speech
  Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2004, Nara, Japan
   
  
• Sendlmeier, W. (2001):
  Phonetische Variation als Funktion unterschiedlicher Sprechstile
  In: Elektronische Signalverarbeitung, w.e.b. Dresden, S. 23-35
   
  
• Sendlmeier, W. (2002):
  Stimmliche und phonetische Manifestation emotionaler Sprechweise
  In: H. Geißner (Hrsg.): Stimmkulturen, Röhrig Universitätsverlag, St. Ingbert, S. 39-49