SUST Bangla Emotional Speech Corpus (SUBESCO)

SUBESCO is an audio-only emotional speech corpus of 7000 sentence-level utterances of the Bangla language. 20 professional actors (10 males and 10 females) participated in the recordings of 10 sentences for 7 target emotions. The emotions are Anger, Disgust, Fear, Happiness, Neutral, Sadness and Surprise. Total duration of the corpus is 7 hours 40 min 40 sec.  Total size of the dataset is 2.03 GB. The dataset was evaluated by 50 raters (25 males, 25 females). Human perception test achieved a raw accuracy of 71%.  All the details relating to creation, evaluation and analysis of SUBESCO have been described in the corresponding journal paper which has been published in Plos One.

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250173

File naming convention:
Each audio file in the dataset has a unique name. There are eight parts in the file name where all the parts are connected by underscores. The order of all the parts is organized as: Gender-Speaker's serial number-Speaker's name-Unit of recording-Unit number- Emotion name- Repeating number and the File format. 

For example, the filename F_02_MONIKA_S_1_NEUTRAL_5.wav refers to: 
•    Female speaker (F)
•    Speaker number(02)
•    Speaker's name (MONIKA)
•    Sentence number (S_1)
•    Emotional state (NEUTRAL)
•    Take number (5)

Contact Information
If you would like further information about the SUBESCO, or if you experience any issues downloading files, please contact at [e-mail].