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title = "{EMOVO} Corpus: an {I}talian Emotional Speech Database",
author = "Costantini, Giovanni and
Iaderola, Iacopo and
Paoloni, Andrea and
Todisco, Massimiliano",
editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta and
Choukri, Khalid and
Declerck, Thierry and
Loftsson, Hrafn and
Maegaard, Bente and
Mariani, Joseph and
Moreno, Asuncion and
Odijk, Jan and
Piperidis, Stelios",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC}'14)",
month = may,
year = "2014",
address = "Reykjavik, Iceland",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
url = "http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/591_Paper.pdf",
pages = "3501--3504",
abstract = "This article describes the first emotional corpus, named EMOVO, applicable to Italian language,. It is a database built from the voices of up to 6 actors who played 14 sentences simulating 6 emotional states (disgust, fear, anger, joy, surprise, sadness) plus the neutral state. These emotions are the well-known Big Six found in most of the literature related to emotional speech. The recordings were made with professional equipment in the Fondazione Ugo Bordoni laboratories. The paper also describes a subjective validation test of the corpus, based on emotion-discrimination of two sentences carried out by two different groups of 24 listeners. The test was successful because it yielded an overall recognition accuracy of 80{\%}. It is observed that emotions less easy to recognize are joy and disgust, whereas the most easy to detect are anger, sadness and the neutral state.",
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%T EMOVO Corpus: an Italian Emotional Speech Database
%A Costantini, Giovanni
%A Iaderola, Iacopo
%A Paoloni, Andrea
%A Todisco, Massimiliano
%Y Calzolari, Nicoletta
%Y Choukri, Khalid
%Y Declerck, Thierry
%Y Loftsson, Hrafn
%Y Maegaard, Bente
%Y Mariani, Joseph
%Y Moreno, Asuncion
%Y Odijk, Jan
%Y Piperidis, Stelios
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%D 2014
%8 May
%I European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
%C Reykjavik, Iceland
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%P 3501-3504
Markdown (Informal)
[EMOVO Corpus: an Italian Emotional Speech Database](http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/591_Paper.pdf) (Costantini et al., LREC 2014)
ACL
- Giovanni Costantini, Iacopo Iaderola, Andrea Paoloni, and Massimiliano Todisco. 2014. EMOVO Corpus: an Italian Emotional Speech Database. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), pages 3501–3504, Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).