Chinese Emotional Prosody Database (CEPD)

CEPD (Chinese Emotional Prosody Database) comprises recordings from 51 speakers conveying 25 emotion through two emotionally neutral sentences: “It’s already 12 o’clock (现在已经十二点了)”, and “Someone is standing there (有人站在那里)”. The emotions include Adoration (喜爱), Amusement (好笑), Anger (气愤), Awe (令人惊叹), Confusion (困惑), Contempt (轻蔑), Desire (欲望), Disgust (厌恶), Distress (苦恼), Excitement (兴奋), Fear (恐惧), Gratitude (感谢), Happiness (开心), Interest (兴趣), Moved (感动), Praise (赞扬), Pride (自豪/骄傲), Sadness (悲伤), Sajiao (撒娇), Shame (羞愧/内疚), Snicker (坏笑), Surprise (惊讶), Positive Surprise (惊喜), Triumph (胜利), and Neutrality (中性).

For each stimulus in CEPD, we provided detailed perceptual and acoustic descriptions for each stimulus, including recognition accuracy, perceived intensity, valence, arousal, as well as eGeMAPs acoustic feature values (Eyben et al., 2016). The database is available on OSF for research purposes only.