KuralHubDatasets

Speech emotion recognition datasets by language

We searched for emotional speech datasets in the 70 most widely spoken languages (by Ethnologue). 45 of them have at least one, and for the other 25 we found none. In all, 90 datasets are documented here.

Each language has its own page with the language family, ISO code and, for every dataset: emotion labels, size, speakers, recording setup, licence, access link, original paper and a BibTeX entry. The pages are generated from the Markdown files in the repository's datasets/ folder. To add a dataset, see CONTRIBUTING.md.

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Languages

70 languages

**All 70 surveyed languages.** Benchmarked marks the 29 languages used in the paper's experiments.
Language	Family	ISO	Datasets	Dataset names	Benchmarked
Afrikaans	Indo-European	af	1	AfrikaansSE	yes
Amharic	Afro-Asiatic	am	1	Amharic Speech Emotion Dataset (ASED)	yes
Arabic	Afro-Asiatic	ar	2	ANAD, BAVED	yes
Assamese	Indo-European	as	2	Assamese Emotional Speech Corpus, Assamese Emotional Speech Dataset
Azerbaijani	Turkic	az	0	none found
Bambara	Niger-Congo	bm	0	none found
Bengali	Indo-European	bn	4	BANSpEmo, BanglaSER, KBES, SUBESCO	yes
Bhojpuri	Indo-European	bho	0	none found
Burmese	Sino-Tibetan	mya	3	BMISEC, ESMBS, New et al. (2001)
Cebuano	Austronesian	ceb	0	none found
Chinese	Sino-Tibetan	zh	8	CASIA, CHEAVD, CHEAVD 2.0, EESDB, EMOVIE, ESD, M3ED, SECEPDB	yes
Czech	Indo-European	cs	2	CDSE, Slavic Call Center Emotional Speech Corpus
Dutch	Indo-European	nl	1	PICKA-NH
English	Indo-European	en	3	IEMOCAP, IESC, RAVDESS	yes
Filipino	Austronesian	fil	1	Filipino Multimodal Emotion Database (FilMED)
French	Indo-European	fr	2	CaFE, OréauFR	yes
Fulfulde	Niger-Congo	ff	0	none found
German	Indo-European	de	1	EmoDB	yes
Greek	Indo-European	el	3	AESDD, GreThE, SEWA	yes
Gujarati	Indo-European	gu	1	Tank et al. (2020)
Hausa	Afro-Asiatic	ha	0	none found
Hindi	Indo-European	hi	3	Bansal And Dev et al., IITKGP-SEHSC, VishalB	yes
Hungarian	Uralic	hu	2	HESD, SEWA	yes
Igbo	Niger-Congo	ig	0	none found
Indonesian	Austronesian	id	2	Fahmi et al (2020), IndoWaveSentiment	yes
Italian	Indo-European	it	3	DEMoS, EMOVO, Emozionalmente	yes
Japanese	Japonic	ja	2	JVNV, Keio-ESD	yes
Javanese	Austronesian	jv	1	Java-SED
Kannada	Dravidian	kn	2	Agrawal et al (2022), KES	yes
Kazakh	Turkic	kk	2	KazEmoTTS, Kazakh-Russian Emotion Corpus	yes
Khmer	Austroasiatic	km	0	none found
Korean	Koreanic	ko	1	KESDy18	yes
Kurdish	Indo-European	ku	2	Kurdish Emotional Speech Database, Nematullah et al. (2024)
Magahi	Indo-European	mag	0	none found
Maithili	Indo-European	mai	0	none found
Malay	Austronesian	ms	1	Emolah
Malayalam	Dravidian	ml	4	IIITSaint-EmoMDB, Kannur Malayalam Speech Emotion Recognition (KMSER) Dataset, MAVES DB, Malayalam Speech Emotion Dataset
Nepali	Indo-European	ne	0	none found
Nigerian Pidgin	English-based creole	pcm	0	none found
Northern Pashto	Indo-European	ps	0	none found
Northern Uzbek	Turkic	uzn	0	none found
Odia	Indo-European	or	1	SITB-OSED	yes
Persian	Indo-European	fa	1	ShEMO	yes
Polish	Indo-European	pl	3	Cichosz and Slot (2005), Sapinski et al. (2019), nEMO	yes
Portuguese	Indo-European	pt	2	VERBO, emoUERJ	yes
Punjabi	Indo-European	pa	1	PEMO
Quechua	Quechuan	qu	1	Quechua Collao Corpus	yes
Romanian	Indo-European	ro	1	SRoL
Russian	Indo-European	ru	2	Dusha, RESD	yes
Saraiki	Indo-European	skr	0	none found
Sindhi	Indo-European	sd	1	Urdu-Sindhi Speech Emotion Corpus
Sinhala	Indo-European	si	0	none found
Somali	Afro-Asiatic	so	0	none found
Sotho	Niger-Congo	st	0	none found
Spanish	Indo-European	es	3	EMOVOME, ESCorpus-PE, MESD	yes
Sundanese	Austronesian	sun	0	none found
Swahili	Niger-Congo	sw	1	Kenyan Swahili SER	yes
Swedish	Indo-European	sv	2	EU-Emotion Voice Database, Swedish Voice Provider Emotional Speech Corpus
Tagalog	Austronesian	tl	0	none found
Tamil	Dravidian	ta	3	EmoTa, Ram, C. Sunitha, et al., TaMaR-EmoDB	yes
Telugu	Dravidian	te	2	IITKGP-SESC, Sowmith et al (2024)	yes
Thai	Kra-Dai	th	1	Thai Speech Emotion Dataset
Tswana	Niger-Congo	tn	0	none found
Turkish	Turkic	tr	2	Oflazoglu et al (2011), TurEV-DB	yes
Ukrainian	Indo-European	uk	0	none found
Urdu	Indo-European	ur	2	URDU-Dataset, UrduSER	yes
Vietnamese	Austroasiatic	vi	1	VNEMOS
Xhosa	Niger-Congo	xho	0	none found
Yoruba	Niger-Congo	yo	0	none found
Zulu	Niger-Congo	zul	0	none found

Tree diagram grouping the surveyed languages by family: Indo-European (with Indo-Aryan, Iranian, Slavic, Italic, Germanic and Hellenic branches), Niger-Congo, Afro-Asiatic, Austronesian, Austroasiatic, Dravidian, Turkic, Sino-Tibetan, Uralic, Kra-Dai, Japonic, Koreanic and Quechuan. — **Language families of the surveyed languages.** Click to enlarge.

All datasets

90 datasets

**All 90 datasets.** Values come from the dataset pages in the repository. A blank cell means the source did not say.
Dataset	Language	Type	Emotion labels	Samples	Recording	Access	Licence
AfrikaansSE	Afrikaans	Audio	Anticipation, Joy, Trust, Fear, Surprise, Sadness, Disgust and Anger	800	Studio (Local Youtube Channel)	On request	Creative Commons Attribution license
Amharic Speech Emotion Dataset (ASED)	Amharic	Audio	Neutral, Fearful, Happy, Sad, Angry	2,474	Acted	Open
ANAD	Arabic	Audio	Happy, Angry, Surprised	1384	Spontaneous	Open	CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
BAVED	Arabic	Audio	Low, Neutral, High	1935	Acted	Open
Assamese Emotional Speech Corpus	Assamese	Audio	Angry, Happy, Sad, Neutral	800	Acted (controlled settings)	On request	CC BY 4.0
Assamese Emotional Speech Dataset	Assamese	Audio	Calm, Neutral, Anger, Sad, Happy, Surprise, Disgust	1750	Acted (controlled settings)	On request
BanglaSER	Bengali	Audio	Angry, Happy, Neutral, Sad, and Surprise	1467	Acted	Open	CC-BY 4.0
BANSpEmo	Bengali	Audio	Disgust, Happy, Sad, Surprised, Anger, Fear	792	Acted	Open	CC-BY 4.0
KBES	Bengali	Audio	Neutral, Happy (Low), Happy (High), Sad (Low), Sad (High), Angry (Low), Angry (High), Disgust (Low), Disgust (High)	900	Acted	Open	CC-BY 4.0
SUBESCO	Bengali	Audio	Anger, Disgust, Fear, Happiness, Neutral, Sadness, and Surprise	7000	Acted	Open	CC-BY 4.0
BMISEC	Burmese	Audio	Angry, Happy, Disgust, Fear, Sad, Surprise, Neutral	1,332	Spontaneous (Myanmar movies, interviews)	Open
ESMBS	Burmese	Audio	Anger, happiness, sadness, disgust, fear, surprise	720	Studio	On request
New et al. (2001)	Burmese	Audio	Anger, Dislike, Fear, Happiness, Sadness and Surprise		Spontaneous	On request
CASIA	Chinese	Audio	Anger, Fear, Happy, Neutral, Sad, Surprise	7,200	Acted	Open	Apache 2.0
CHEAVD	Chinese	Audio-Visual	Anger, Anxious, Sadness, Surprise, Disgust, Fear, Happiness, Worried	2,322	Acted	Open
CHEAVD 2.0	Chinese	Audio-Visual	Anger, Anxious, Sadness, Surprise, Disgust, Happiness, Worried, Neutral	7,030	Spontaneous	Open
EESDB	Chinese	Audio	Anger, Disgust, Fear, Happiness, Neutral, Sadness, and Surprise	400	Spontaneous	On request
EMOVIE	Chinese	Audio / Text	5-point polarity scale (Strong Negative to Strong Positive)	9,724	Movie speech	Open
ESD	Chinese	Audio	Neutral, Anger, Happiness, Sadness, Surprise	17,500	Spontaneous	On request
M3ED	Chinese	Multimodal	Happy, Neutral, Sad, Disgust, Anger, Fear, Surprise	24,449	Acted (TV series)	Open
SECEPDB	Chinese	Multimodal	Anxiety, boredom, Anger, Disgust, Happiness, Neutral, Sadness	810	Spontaneous	On request
CDSE	Czech	Audio	Happiness, Anger, Sadness, Neutral		Spontaneous (extracted from radio and TV broadcasts)	On request
Slavic Call Center Emotional Speech Corpus	Czech	Audio	Anger, Happiness, Sadness, Surprise, Neutral	600	Spontaneous (real call center interactions)	On request
PICKA-NH	Dutch	Audio	Happiness, Anger, Sadness		Studio	Open	MIT, CC-BY
IEMOCAP	English	Audio	Happy, Anger, Sadness, Frustration, and Neutral	12000+	Acted	On request	Dataset-Specific
IESC	English	Audio	Neutral, Happy, Angry, Sad,and Fear	600	Acted	Open
RAVDESS	English	Audio	Calm, Happy, Sad, Angry, Fearful, Surprise, and Disgust	1440	Acted	Open	CC-BY 4.0
Filipino Multimodal Emotion Database (FilMED)	Filipino	Multimodal (Audio-Video)	kasiyahan (happiness), kalungkutan (sadness), galit (anger), takot (fear), gulat (surprise), pandidiri (disgust)	1,440	Studio (acted) and spontaneous expressions	On request
CaFE	French	Audio	Sadness, Happiness, Anger, Fear, Disgust, Surprise, and Neutral	936	Acted	Open	CC-BY 4.0
OréauFR	French	Audio	Anger, Disgust, Fear, Happiness, Sadness, Surprise, Neutral	502	Acted	Open	CC-BY 4.0
EmoDB	German	Audio	Anger, Boredom, Anxiety, Happy, Sadness, Disgust, and Neutral	535	Acted	Open
AESDD	Greek	Audio	Happy, Sad, Angry, Fear, Disgust	500	Acted	Open
GreThE	Greek	Audio	emotions are characterized using Valence(Negative/Neutral/Positive) and Arousal(Weak/Neutral/Strong).	500	Acted (Theatrical Plays)	Open
SEWA	Greek	Multimodal (Audio, Video)	emotions are characterized using valence and arousal.	1990	Spontaneous (natural interactions)	On request	Dataset-Specific - SEWA EULA
Tank et al. (2020)	Gujarati	Audio	Sadness, Surprise, Anger, Disgust, Fear, Happiness	1296	Acted	On request
Bansal And Dev et al.	Hindi	Audio		6048	Acted	On request
IITKGP-SEHSC	Hindi	Audio	Anger, Disgust, Fear, Happy, Neutral, Sad, Sarcastic and Surprise	12000	Acted	On request
VishalB	Hindi	Audio	Anger, Disgust, Fear, Happy, Neutral, Sad, Sarcastic and Surprise	3200	Acted	Open
HESD	Hungarian	Audio	Fear, Sadness, Anger, Surprise, Disgust, Joy, Excitement, Neutral	888	Acted(Non Professional Speakers - Quiet Office Room)	On request
SEWA	Hungarian	Multimodal (Audio, Video)	emotions are characterized using valence and arousal.	1990	Spontaneous (natural interactions)	On request	Dataset-Specific - SEWA EULA
Fahmi et al (2020)	Indonesian	Audio	Happy, Sad, Angry, Neutral	965	Acted	On request
IndoWaveSentiment	Indonesian	Audio	Neutral, Happy, Surprised, Disgusted, and Disappointed	300	Acted	Open	CC-BY 4.0
DEMoS	Italian	Audio	Anger, Sadness, Happiness, Fear, Surprise, Disgust, Guilt	6697	Acted	On request
EMOVO	Italian	Audio	Disgust, Fear, Anger, Joy, Surprise, Sadness, Neutral	564	Acted	Open
Emozionalmente	Italian	Audio	Anger, Disgust, Fear, Joy, Sadness, Surprise, Neutral	6902	Acted	Open	CC-BY 4.0
JVNV	Japanese	Audio	Anger, Disgust, Fear, Happiness, Sadness, and Surprise	1615	Acted	Open	CC-BY-SA 4.0
Keio-ESD	Japanese	Audio	Anger, joy, disgust, contempt, amusement, worry, kindness, relief, indignation, shame, ... (47 types in total)		Acted	Open
Java-SED	Javanese	Audio	Neutral, Sad, Happy, Surprised, Fear and Anger	1680	Acted	On request
Agrawal et al (2022)	Kannada	Audio	Anger, Sadness, Surprise, Happiness, Fear, Neutral	468	Acted	Open	CC-BY 4.0
KES	Kannada	Audio			Acted	On request
Kazakh-Russian Emotion Corpus	Kazakh	Audio	Happiness, Sadness, Anger, Neutral, Boredom, Disgust, Fear	16160	Acted	On request
KazEmoTTS	Kazakh	Audio + Text	Happy, Sad, Angry, Neutral, Scared, and Surprised	54,760	Studio	On request	CC-BY 4.0
KESDy18	Korean	Audio	Angry, happy, neutral, sad, disgust, fear, surprise	2880	Studio	Open	Dataset-Specific
Kurdish Emotional Speech Database	Kurdish	Audio	Anger, Happiness, Sad, Fear, Boredom, Surprise, and Neutral	3360	Acted	On request
Nematullah et al. (2024)	Kurdish	Audio	Neutral, Sadness, Happiness, and Anger	287	Studio	On request
Emolah	Malay	Audio	Happy, Sad, Angry, Neutral		Spontaneous	On request	Creative Commons Attribution License
IIITSaint-EmoMDB	Malayalam	Audio	Happy, Sad, Angry and Neutral or emotion ratings at valence and arousal			On request
Kannur Malayalam Speech Emotion Recognition (KMSER) Dataset	Malayalam	Audio	Happy, Angry, Sad, Neutral		Acted	On request
Malayalam Speech Emotion Dataset	Malayalam	Audio	Happy, Sad, Angry, Neutral		Elicited	On request
MAVES DB	Malayalam	Multimodal (Audio-Visual)				Open	CC BY 4.0
SITB-OSED	Odia	Audio	Anger, Surprise, Happy, Sadness, Disgust, Fear	12,110	Studio	Open
ShEMO	Persian	Audio	Anger, Fear, Happiness, Sadness, Surprise, Neutral	3000	Acted	Open
Cichosz and Slot (2005)	Polish	Audio	Neutral, Joy, Anger, Sadness, Fear, Boredom	240 utterances	Acted	On request
nEMO	Polish	Audio	Anger, Fear, Happiness, Sadness, Surprise, Neutral	4481	Studio	Open	CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Sapinski et al. (2019)	Polish	Audio-Visual	Happy, Sad, Angry, Disgust, Fear, Surprise	560 per modality	Studio	On request
emoUERJ	Portuguese	Audio	Happy, Sad, Angry, Neutral	377	Acted	Open	CC-BY 4.0
VERBO	Portuguese	Audio	Happy, Disgust, Fear, Neutral, Anger, Surprise, and Sadness	1176	Acted	On request
PEMO	Punjabi	Audio	Anger, Sad, Happy, Neutral	22000	Acted	On request
Quechua Collao Corpus	Quechua	Audio	Happy, Sad, Bored, Fear, Sleepy, Calm, Excited, Angry, and Neutral	12420	Acted	Open	CC BY 4.0
SRoL	Romanian	Audio	Happiness, Sadness, Fury, Nutral	396	Acted	Open
Dusha	Russian	Audio	Happiness (Positive), Sadness, Anger and Neutral	300000	Spontaneous	Open
RESD	Russian	Audio	Anger, Disgust, Fear, Enthusiasm, Happiness, Neutral, and Sadness	1120	Acted	Open
Urdu-Sindhi Speech Emotion Corpus	Sindhi	Audio	Anger, Disgust, Happiness, Neutral, Sarcasm, Sadness, and Surprise			On request
EMOVOME	Spanish	Audio	Covering valence and arousal dimensions	999	Spontaneous	Open	CC-BY 4.0
ESCorpus-PE	Spanish	Audio	three emotional dimensions Valence, Arousal, Dominance	3749	Spontaneous	Open	CC BY 4.0
MESD	Spanish	Audio	Happy, Sad, Angry, Neutral, Fear, Disgust	432	Acted	Open	CC-BY 4.0
Kenyan Swahili SER	Swahili	Audio	Sad, Happy, Surprised, Angry, Calm		Studio / Acted / Spontaneous	On request
EU-Emotion Voice Database	Swedish	Audio	Admiration, Amusement, Anger, Anxiety, Awe, Boredom, Disgust, Fear, Interest, Joy, Pleasure, Relief, Sadness, Satisfaction, Surprise, Triumph, Contempt, Embarrassment, Neutral, Pride	2,159	Acted (controlled settings)	On request
Swedish Voice Provider Emotional Speech Corpus	Swedish	Audio	Not explicitly labeled; inferred categories include Neutral, Emphatic, and Negative	~10,000 utterances	Spontaneous (recordings from voice-controlled telephone services)	On request
EmoTa	Tamil	Audio	Happy, Sad, Angry, Fear, Neutral	936	Acted	Open	EmoTa Academic-Commercial
Ram, C. Sunitha, et al.	Tamil	Audio	Joy, Sad, Angry, Neutral, Fear	95	Acted	On request
TaMaR-EmoDB	Tamil	Audio	Anger, Happy, Anxiety, Sad, Neutral	1202	Acted	On request
IITKGP-SESC	Telugu	Audio	Happiness, Surprise, Anger, Disgust, Sadness, Fear, Sarcasm, Neutral	12000	Acted	On request
Sowmith et al (2024)	Telugu	Audio	Happy, Sad, Angry, Neutral, Surprised	458	Acted	Open	Apache 2.0
Thai Speech Emotion Dataset	Thai	Audio	Neutral, Anger, Happiness, Sadness, and Frustration	27854	Acted	Open	CC-BY-SA 4.0
Oflazoglu et al (2011)	Turkish	Audio	Happy, Surprised, Sad, Angry, Fear, Neutral	5304	Acted	On request
TurEV-DB	Turkish	Audio	Angry, Calm, Happy, Sad	1735	Acted	Open	CC-BY 4.0
URDU-Dataset	Urdu	Audio	Happy, Sad, Angry, Neutral	400	Acted	Open
UrduSER	Urdu	Audio	Angry, Fear, Boredom, Disgust, Happy, Neutral, and Sad	3500	Acted	Open	CC-BY 4.0
VNEMOS	Vietnamese	Audio	Happy, Sad, Angry, Neutral, Anxiety	250	Acted and Spontaneous	On request

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