# 🗂️ Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) Datasets for English
Welcome to the **English** section of KuralHub!
This directory contains **Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) datasets** available for **English**, along with metadata and access information.
## 🌍 **Language Information**
- **🗣 Language Name:** English
- **🌐 Language Family:** Indo-European
- **🔤 ISO Code:** en
- **📍 Major Spoken Countries:** United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand
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## 📜 **Available Datasets**
| Dataset Name | Type | # Speakers | # Samples | License | Access | Research Paper | Dataset Access |
| ------------------------ | ------------- | ---------- | --------- | ---------- | ---------- | -------------------------- | ------------------------- |
| [IEMOCAP](IEMOCAP.md) | 🎭 Multimodal | 10 | 12000+ | - | 🔒 Request | [Link to Paper](https://sail.usc.edu/iemocap/Busso_2008_iemocap.pdf) | [Access Link](https://sail.usc.edu/iemocap/iemocap_release.htm) |
| [RAVDESS](RAVDESS.md) | 🎙️ Audio | 24 | 1440 | CC-BY 4.0 | 🔗 Open | [Link to Paper](https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0196391) | [Access Link](https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/uwrfkaggler/ravdess-emotional-speech-audio) |
| [IESC](IESC.md) | 🎙️ Audio | 8 | 600 | - | 🔗 Open | [Link to Paper](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11042-023-14577-w) | [Access Link](https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/ybsingh/indian-emotional-speech-corpora-iesc) |
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## 📥 **How to Use These Datasets**
1. Browse individual dataset details in their respective `.md` files.
2. Follow access instructions to download or request datasets.
3. Check licensing before using for research or commercial purposes.
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## 📌 **Contribute**
If you know of **missing datasets** for English, feel free to submit an update!
📩 **[Contribution Guidelines](../../CONTRIBUTING.md)**
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