%0 Conference Proceedings %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 %S Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’14) %D 2014 %8 May %I European Language Resources Association (ELRA) %C Reykjavik, Iceland %F costantini-etal-2014-emovo %X 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. %U http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/591_Paper.pdf %P 3501-3504