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VESUS (Varied Emotion in Syntactically Uniform Speech)

Introduced by Ravi Shankar et al. in A Deep-Bayesian Framework for Adaptive Speech Duration Modification16 Sep 2019 archive 2025-07-28

The Varied Emotion in Syntactically Uniform Speech (VESUS) repository is a lexically controlled database collected by the NSA lab. Here, actors read a semantically neutral script of words, phrases, and sentences with different emotional inflections. VESUS contains 252 distinct phrases, each read by 10 actors in 5 emotional states (neutral, angry, happy, sad, fearful).

Source: https://engineering.jhu.edu/nsa/vesus/

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