MES-P: an Emotional Tonal Speech Dataset in Mandarin Chinese with Distal and Proximal Labels

Understand

Emotion shapes all aspects of our interpersonal and intellectual experiences.

• Its automatic analysis has there-fore many applications, e.g., human-machine interface.
• In this paper, we propose an emotional tonal speech dataset, namely Mandarin Chinese Emotional Speech Dataset - Portrayed (MES-P), with both distal and proximal labels.
• In contrast with state of the art emotional speech datasets which are only focused on perceived emotions, the proposed MES-P dataset includes not only perceived emotions with their proximal labels but also intended emotions with distal labels, thereby making it possible to study human emotional intelligence, i.e.