AESDD v1.0 was created on October 2017 in the Laboratory of Electronic Media,
School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
for the needs of Speech Emotion Recognition research of the Multidisciplinary Media &
Mediated Communication Research Group (M3C,
http://m3c.web.auth.gr/).
For the creation of v.1 of the database, 5 (3 female and 2 male) professional actors were recorded.
19 utterances of ambiguous out of context emotional content were chosen.
The actors acted these 19 utterances in every one of the 5 chosen emotions.
One extra improvised utterance was added for every actor and emotion.
The guidance of the actors and the choice of the final recordings were supervised by
a scientific expert in dramatology. For some of the utterances, more that one takes were qualified.
Consequently, around 500 utterances occured in the final database.
