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The EmoHI Test stimuli: Measuring vocal emotion recognition in hearing-impaired populations

Creators

  • 1. Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG), University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands | Department of Otorhinolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
  • 2. Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG), University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
  • 3. Department of Otorhinolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands

Contributors

Data curator:

  • 1. CNRS, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, France | University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Netherlands
  • 2. Clinical Neurosciences Department, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
  • 3. Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, NE, US

Description

Before using the stimuli, make sure you have read the README.1.pdf file.

The EmoHI Test

The EmoHI Test was developed to measure the accuracy at which participants can recognize vocal emotions based on pseudospeech sentences that were produced in a happy, angry sad, or neutral manner. The EmoHI Test recordings are particularly suitable for testing hearing-impaired populations due to their high sound quality. All recordings, including the ones that were used in Nagels et al. (2020, PeerJ, doi: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.27921v1), are made available here.

The stimuli were recorded in an anechoic room at a sampling rate of 44.1 kHz. The microphone was placed at a distance of approximately 12 inches (30 cm) from the speaker. The recordings were made by connecting a standing Røde NT1 microphone to a Presonus TubePre V2 preamplifier and a TASCAM DR-100 portable digital recorder. The gain of the recordings was adjusted for each emotion production using the preamplifier to record the stimuli at an intensity level that was approximately the same across emotions to reduce large intensity differences between the recordings of different emotions.

Sound file name structure

The name of each sound file indicates:

  • The speaker who produced the stimulus: t1, t2, t3, t4, t5, or t6
  • The emotion that was produced: neutral, happy, angry, or sad
  • The pseudospeech sentence that was produced: 1 for "Koun se mina lod belam." 2 for "Nekal ibam soud molen."
  • The utterance number: Number ranging from u01 to u18

Speaker demographic information

The table below gives an overview of the voice characteristics from the speakers who produced the EmoHI test stimuli.

| Speaker | Age (years) | Gender | Height (m) | Mean F0 (Hz) |  F0 range (Hz)  |
|:-------:|:-----------:|:------:|:----------:|:------------:|:---------------:|
|   t1    |      48     |    f   |    1.72    |    253.14    | 179.97 - 421.81 |
|   t2    |      36     |    f   |    1.68    |    302.23    | 200.71 – 437.38 |
|   t3    |      27     |    m   |    1.85    |    166.92    | 100.99 – 296.47 |
|   t4    |      45     |    m   |    1.90    |    149.41    |  96.97 - 274.72 |
|   t5    |      25     |    f   |    1.63    |    282.89    | 199.49 – 429.38 |
|   t6    |      24     |    m   |    1.75    |    167.76    |  87.46 – 285.79 |

 

Notes

Funding: Center for Language Cognition Groningen (CLCG); VICI Grant nº918-17-603 from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and the Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development (ZonMw); LabEx CeLyA ("Centre Lyonnais d'Acoustique," ANR-10-LABX-0060/ANR-11-IDEX-0007) operated by the French National Research Agency.

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Preprint: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.27921v1 (DOI)