DEMoS: an Italian emotional speech corpus: Elicitation methods, machine learning, and perception.

We present DEMoS (Database of Elicited Mood in Speech), a new, large database with Italian emotional speech: 68 speakers, some 9 k speech samples. As Italian is under-represented in speech emotion research, for a comparison with the state-of-the-art, we model the 'big 6 emotions' and guilt. Besides...

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Publicado en:Language Resources & Evaluation Vol. 54; no. 2; pp. 341 - 384
Autores principales: Parada-Cabaleiro, Emilia, Costantini, Giovanni, Batliner, Anton, Schmitt, Maximilian, Schuller, Björn W.
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Publicado: Springer Nature Jun2020
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          ZD.B Chair of Embedded Intelligence for Health Care and Wellbeing, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany
          Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
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