MASC: A Speech Corpus in Mandarin for Emotion Analysis and Affective Speaker Recognition

Author

Wu, Tian ; Yang, Yingchun ; Wu, Zhaohui ; Li, Dongdong

Author_Institution

Coll. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou

fYear

2006

fDate

28-30 June 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this paper, a large emotional speech database MASC (Mandarin affective speech corpus) is introduced. The database contains recordings of 68 native speakers (23 female and 45 male) and five kinds of emotional states: neutral, anger, elation, panic and sadness. Each speaker pronounces 5 phrases, 10 sentences for three times for each emotional states and 2 paragraphs only for neutral. These materials covers all the phonemes in Chinese. This corpus is constructed for prosodic and linguistic investigation of emotion expression in Mandarin. It can also be used for recognition of affectively stressed speakers. Furthermore, prosodic feature analysis and speaker recognition baseline experiment are performed on this database

Keywords

audio databases; emotion recognition; feature extraction; natural languages; speaker recognition; speech processing; Chinese; MASC; Mandarin affective speech corpus; emotion expression; emotional speech database; linguistic investigation; phoneme; prosodic feature analysis; stressed speaker recognition; Computer science; Educational institutions; Emotion recognition; Humans; Natural languages; Performance analysis; Spatial databases; Speaker recognition; Speech analysis; Wheels;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop, 2006. IEEE Odyssey 2006: The

Conference_Location

San Juan

Print_ISBN

1-424400471-1

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0472-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ODYSSEY.2006.248084

Filename

4013501