The Mexican Emotional Speech Database (MESD): elaboration and assessment based on machine learning

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2021 Nov:2021:1644-1647. doi: 10.1109/EMBC46164.2021.9629934.

Abstract

The Mexican Emotional Speech Database is presented along with the evaluation of its reliability based on machine learning analysis. The database contains 864 voice recordings with six different prosodies: anger, disgust, fear, happiness, neutral, and sadness. Furthermore, three voice categories are included: female adult, male adult, and child. The following emotion recognition was reached for each category: 89.4%, 93.9% and 83.3% accuracy on female, male and child voices, respectively.Clinical Relevance - Mexican Emotional Speech Database is a contribution to healthcare emotional speech data and can be used to help objective diagnosis and disease characterization.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Child
  • Emotions
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Machine Learning
  • Male
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Speech*
  • Voice*