Varied Emotion in Syntactically Uniform Speech
Introduced in A Deep-Bayesian Framework for Adaptive Speech Duration Modification2019
The Varied Emotion in Syntactically Uniform Speech (VESUS) repository is a lexically controlled database collected by the NSA lab. Here, actors read a semantically neutral script of words, phrases, and sentences with different emotional inflections. VESUS contains 252 distinct phrases, each read by 10 actors in 5 emotional states (neutral, angry, happy, sad, fearful).
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