The corpus contains 1234 sentences expressing anger, joy, and sadness, as well as neutral sentences.
Read-out non-acted speech.
Female voice.
The reliability of the corpus is ensured with perception tests.
The emotion of the sentence is marked at the end of the TextGrid file.
See for example:
Altrov, Rene; Pajupuu, Hille 2012. Estonian Emotional Speech Corpus: Theoretical base and implementation. In: 4th International Workshop on Corpora for Research on Emotion Sentiment & Social Signals (ES3), L. Devillers, B. Schuller, A. Batliner, P. Rosso, E. Douglas-Cowie, R. Cowie, C. Pelachaud (eds.), 50−53. Istanbul.
Funding
The National Programme for Estonian Language Technology (2006-2010)