A Kannada Emotional Speech Dataset

There was no emotional speech dataset available in Kannada. This was a limiting factor for research in the Kannada-speaking world. I introduce a Kannada emotional speech dataset and give details about its design and content. This dataset contains six different sentences, pronounced by thirteen people (four male and nine female), in five basic emotions plus one neutral emotion. They are all Kannada speakers. The dataset has been contributed by volunteers and the recordings were not made in a controlled environment. The dataset contains a total of 468 audio samples, each one in a separate audio file. The file naming convention is as follows: AA-EE-SS.wav where AA is a two-character field that gives the actor number (01 to 13), EE is a two-character field that indicates the emotion number (01 to 06), and SS is a two-character field that gives the sentence number (01 to 06). This dataset is freely available under a Creative Commons license.

Gender and age of each of the 13 people who contributed to the dataset

• 01, F, 45
• 02, F, 20
• 03, F, 21
• 04, M, 47
• 05, F, 48
• 06, M, 20
• 07, F, 20
• 08, F, 45
• 09, F, 21
• 10, F, 12
• 11, F, 12
• 12, M, 17
• 13, M, 26

Identification characters for the emotions in the dataset

• 01, Anger
• 02, Sadness
• 03, Surprise
• 04, Happiness
• 05, Fear
• 06, Neutral

Identification characters for the sentences in the dataset

• 01, ರೋಗಿಗಳಿಗೆ ಚಿಕಿತ್ಸೆ ನೀಡಿ ಉಪಚರಿಸುವುದು
• 02, ಈ ಕಾದಂಬರಿಯು ಎರಡು ಪಾತ್ರಗಳನ್ನು ಒಳಗೊಂಡಿದೆ
• 03, ಖಾಸಗಿ ವಿಮಾನಗಳೆಂದೂ ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ವಿಮಾನಗಳೆಂದೂ ವಿಂಗಡಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ
• 04, ನಿಮ್ಮನ್ನು ಬೀಟಿಯಾಗಿ ಬಹಳ ಸಂತೋಶ ಆಯಿತು
• 05, ರಾಮನ ಎಡಬಲ ದಲ್ಲಿ ಸೀತಾ ಲಕ್ಷ್ಮಣ ರಿದ್ದಾರೆ
• 06, ಕನ್ನಡವನ್ನು ಕಲಿಯಬೆಕು