EmoFilm (Emotional speech from Films)

EmoFilm is a multilingual emotional speech corpus comprising 1115 audio instances produced in English, Italian, and Spanish languages. The audio clips (with a mean length of 3.5 sec. and std 1.2 sec.) were extracted in wave format (uncompressed, mono, 48 kHz sample rate and 16-bit) from 43 films (original in English and their over-dubbed Italian and Spanish versions). Genres including comedy, drama, horror, and thriller were considered; anger, contempt, happiness, fear, and sadness emotional states were taken into account. EmoFilm has been presented at Interspeech 2018: Emilia Parada-Cabaleiro, Giovanni Costantini, Anton Batliner, Alice Baird, and Björn Schuller (2018), Categorical vs Dimensional Perception of Italian Emotional Speech, in Proc. of Interspeech, Hyderabad, India, pp. 3638-3642.