---
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: audio
    dtype:
      audio:
        sampling_rate: 16000
  - name: emotion
    dtype: string
  - name: label
    dtype:
      class_label:
        names:
          '0': anxiety
          '1': disgust
          '2': happiness
          '3': boredom
          '4': neutral
          '5': sadness
          '6': anger
  splits:
  - name: train
    num_bytes: 26772110
    num_examples: 304
  - name: test
    num_bytes: 20866781
    num_examples: 231
  download_size: 46818101
  dataset_size: 47638891
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: data/train-*
  - split: test
    path: data/test-*
task_categories:
- audio-classification
tags:
- audio
- paralinguistic
- multiclass
---

# EmoDB

The EmoDB is the freely available German emotional database, containing a total of 535 utterances.
It comprises of seven emotions: 1) anger; 2) boredom; 3) anxiety; 4) happiness; 5) sadness; 6) disgust; and 7) neutral.
The data was recorded at a 48-kHz sampling rate and then down-sampled to 16-kHz.
We follow the unofficial speaker-independent train/test split from [here](https://github.com/audeering/emodb/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md).

## Citations

```bibtex
@inproceedings{burkhardt2005database,
  title={A database of German emotional speech.},
  author={Burkhardt, Felix and Paeschke, Astrid and Rolfes, Miriam and Sendlmeier, Walter F and Weiss, Benjamin and others},
  booktitle={Interspeech},
  volume={5},
  pages={1517--1520},
  year={2005}
}
```