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Acoustic analyses of the RAVDESS corpus of emotional stimuli

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: Freely available online emotional stimuli allow researchers to conduct emotional perception research without needing to record their own and easily compare findings across studies; however, the acoustic properties, specifically the prosodic cues, are frequently unreported. Prosodic cues are important for a listener to contrast between the talker's emotional tone. Thus, understanding how these cues differ among an emotional stimuli database allows for a nuanced interpretation of findings for emotion perception researchers. This paper analyzes the prosodic cues (fundamental frequency, duration, and loudness) of the speech stimuli in The Ryerson Audio-Visual Database of Emotional Speech and Song (RAVDESS).

Source: JASA Express Letters

DOI: 10.1121/10.0042364

Authors: Devon P. Major, Monita Chatterjee

Institutions: Boys Town National Research Hospital, Northwestern University

Language: English

Topic: Emotion and Mood Recognition

Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

Awards: G1175342367, G1904325599, G4375803706