EmoTale: An Enacted Speech-emotion Dataset in Danish

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14548v1
• Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 09:01:54 GMT
• Title: EmoTale: An Enacted Speech-emotion Dataset in Danish
• Authors: Maja J. Hjuler, Harald V. Skat-Rørdam, Line H. Clemmensen, Sneha Das,
• Abstract summary: EmoTale is a corpus of Danish and English speech recordings with their associated enacted emotion annotations.<n>We develop SER models for EmoTale and the reference datasets using self-supervised speech model embeddings and the openSMILE feature extractor.<n>The best model achieves an unweighted average recall (UAR) of 64.1% on the EmoTale corpus.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: While multiple emotional speech corpora exist for commonly spoken languages, there is a lack of functional datasets for smaller (spoken) languages, such as Danish. To our knowledge, Danish Emotional Speech (DES), published in 1997, is the only other database of Danish emotional speech. We present EmoTale; a corpus comprising Danish and English speech recordings with their associated enacted emotion annotations. We demonstrate the validity of the dataset by investigating and presenting its predictive power using speech emotion recognition (SER) models. We develop SER models for EmoTale and the reference datasets using self-supervised speech model (SSLM) embeddings and the openSMILE feature extractor. We find the embeddings superior to the hand-crafted features. The best model achieves an unweighted average recall (UAR) of 64.1% on the EmoTale corpus using leave-one-speaker-out cross-validation, comparable to the performance on DES.

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