Establishment of Chinese Speech Emotion Database of Broadcasting

Abstract

In order to provide an effective and available database for speech emotion recognition and research on broadcast speech, an speech emotion database based on broadcast vocalization method is established, which contains seven discrete emotions, namely, happy, very happy, sad, very sad, angry, very angry and neutral. The database is recorded by four graduate students (two male and two female) from Communication University of China, who majoring in broadcasting and anchoring, at the professional recording room in a performance way. To prove the effectiveness of the database, an evaluation group of 10 people, both professional and nonprofessional, was organized to conduct a subjective evaluation experiment on the randomly selected samples from the database. The experiment results show that this database is an effective and reliable Chinese speech emotion database of broadcasting.