Spontaneous Emotional Speech Recordings through a Cooperative Online Video Game

Most of emotional speech databases are recorded by actors and some of spontaneous databases are not free of charge. To progress in emotional recognition, it is necessary to carry out a big data acquisition task. The current work gives a methodology to capture spontaneous emotions through a cooperative video game. Our methodology is based on three new concepts: novelty, reproducibility and ubiquity. Moreover, we have developed an experiment to capture spontaneous speech and video recordings in a controlled environment in order to obtain high quality samples.

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