{"url":"/dataset/vesus","name":"VESUS","full_name":"Varied Emotion in Syntactically Uniform Speech","description_markdown":"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).\r\n\r\nSource: [https://engineering.jhu.edu/nsa/vesus/](https://engineering.jhu.edu/nsa/vesus/)","description_withheld":null,"homepage":"https://engineering.jhu.edu/nsa/vesus/","introduced_date":"2019-09-16","introduced_date_note":null,"introduced_by":{"paper":"/paper/a-deep-bayesian-framework-for-adaptive-speech","title":"A Deep-Bayesian Framework for Adaptive Speech Duration Modification","first_author":"Ravi Shankar","url":null},"license":{"name":"Unknown","url":null},"modalities":[{"name":"Speech","url":"/datasets/modality/speech"}],"tasks":[{"name":"Emotion Recognition","url":"/task/emotion-recognition","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/emotion-recognition"},{"name":"Voice Conversion","url":"/task/voice-conversion","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/voice-conversion"}],"languages":[{"name":"English","url":"/datasets/language/english"}],"variants":["VESUS"],"data_loaders":[],"num_papers_in_archive":1,"source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28"},"benchmarks":[],"papers_with_a_benchmark_row":[],"syntology_totals":{"read_at":"2026-09-25T09:33:49+00:00","papers_with_samples":0,"samples_harvested":0,"samples_ran":0,"samples_unverified":0,"pointer_only_for_licence":0,"papers_with_no_sample_that_ran":0,"note":"the per-paper counts above, summed; not a rate"},"papers_note":"The archive never published its papers-using-dataset list; these are papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks."}