Published November 19, 2025 | Version v3

Berlin EmoDB 2.0

Description

A database of emotional speech. Ten actors (5 female and 5 male) simulated the emotions,
producing 10 German utterances (5 short and 5 longer sentences) which could be used in everyday communication
and are interpretable in all applied emotions.
The recordings were taken in an anechoic chamber with high-quality recording equipment. In addition to the sound
electro-glottograms were recorded. The speech material comprises about 800 sentences (seven emotions * ten actors * ten sentences + some second versions).
The complete database was evaluated in a perception test regarding the recognisability of emotions and their
naturalness. 

This version 2.0 adds the electro-glottograms as well as the ambiguous samples to the database.

They are split into 4 speakers in test and 6 speakers in train.

The database meta information is in audformat.

The audio format is 16kHz wav format.

Here's a sample script in Python how to get train and test dataframes:

import audformat

!wget https://zenodo.org/record/7447302/files/emodb.zip

!unzip emodb.zip

db = audformat.Database.load('emodb')

df_test = db['emotion.categories.test.gold_standard'].get()

df_train = db['emotion.categories.train.gold_standard'].get()

print(f'samples in train: {df_train.shape[0]}, and test: {df_test.shape[0]}')

Notes

Database description

Funded by DFG (German Research Community) Grant no. SE 462/3-1

Files

emodb_2.0.zip

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References

  • F. Burkhardt, O. Schrüfer, U. Reichel, H. Wierstorf, A. Derington, F. Eyben, B. Schuller: EmoDB 2.0: A Database of Emotional Speech in a World that is not Black or White but Grey, Interspeech 2025