# 🗂️ Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) Datasets for Malayalam

Welcome to the **Malayalam** section of KuralHub! <br/>
This directory contains **Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) datasets** available for **Malayalam**, along with metadata and access information.

## 🌍 **Language Information**

- **🗣 Language Name:** Malayalam <br/>
- **🌐 Language Family:** Dravidian <br/>
- **🔤 ISO Code:** ml <br/>
- **📍 Major Spoken Countries:** India (Kerala, Lakshadweep, Puducherry) <br/>

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## 📜 **Available Datasets**

| Dataset Name                                                         | Type                         | # Speakers    | # Samples     | License       | Access     | Research Paper                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | Dataset Access                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| -------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------- | ------------- | ------------- | ------------- | ---------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| [KMSER](KMSER.md)                                                    | 🎙️ Audio                     | Not specified | Not specified | Not specified | 🔒 Request | [Malayalam Kannur Dialect Speech Emotion Recognition using Machine Learning](https://thegrenze.com/pages/servej.php?association=GRENZE&fn=380.pdf&id=1958&issue=2&journal=GIJET&name=Malayalam+Kannur+Dialect+Speech+EmotionRecognition+using+Machine+Learning&volume=9&year=2023) | Not specified                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| [IIITSaint-EmoMDB](IIITSaint-EmoMDB.md)                              | 🎙️ Audio                     | Not specified | Not specified | Not specified | 🔒 Request | [IIITSaint-EmoMDB: Carefully Curated Malayalam Speech Corpus with Emotion and Self-Reported Depression Ratings](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10800549)                                                                                                                     | Not specified                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| [MAVES DB](MAVES-DB.md)                                              | 🎭 Multimodal (Audio-Visual) | Not specified | Not specified | Not specified | 🔗 Open    | Not Specified                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | [Mendeley](https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/6hm2xt5hd8/1)                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| [Malayalam Speech Emotion Dataset](MalayalamSpeechEmotionDataset.md) | 🎙️ Audio                     | Not Specified | Not Specified | Not specified | 🔒 Request | [Automatic Emotion Recognition from Speech using Artificial Neural Networks with Gender Dependent Databases](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/5376782)                                                                                                                | [Dr. Firoze A](mailto:firozathoppil@gmail.com?subject=Dataset%20Access%20Request), [Dr. Rajiv A](mailto:rajivinod.a@gmail.com?subject=Dataset%20Access%20Request), [Dr. Bantop](mailto:bantop@gmail.com?subject=Dataset%20Access%20Request) |

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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 Malayalam, feel free to submit an update! <br/>
📩 **[Contribution Guidelines](../../CONTRIBUTING.md)**

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