Hoosier Vocal Emotions Collection: DOWNLOAD information
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Thank you for your interest in the Hoosier Vocal Emotion Corpus. In the table below, you can download the database of the corpus, which contains information about each sound file. We also provide the descriptive statistics for the acoustic measurements for each emotion. The last row contains the results of the validation study we conducted with 96 participants.
If you are interested in obtaining the sound files and/or the Praat textgrids, we ask that you fill out a quick survey via Qualtrics. This survey will send us your information (You only need to fill out the survey once to get access to both.). After we double check your information, we will get in touch with you to give you the access codes for the download page.
The collection's recordings are free, and access can be obtained through this simple request. However, its use is limited to research. Please do not hesitate to get in touch with us if this website does not answer your questions.
If you are interested in obtaining the sound files and/or the Praat textgrids, we ask that you fill out a quick survey via Qualtrics. This survey will send us your information (You only need to fill out the survey once to get access to both.). After we double check your information, we will get in touch with you to give you the access codes for the download page.
The collection's recordings are free, and access can be obtained through this simple request. However, its use is limited to research. Please do not hesitate to get in touch with us if this website does not answer your questions.
File type |
Contents |
Download |
Corpus main database |
Contains information about each sound file (open access), such as confusion matrices, identification averages, etc. (aggregated) |
Click here to download => the corpus database (MS Excel) Click here to download =>the corpus database (csv) Click here to download =>the corpus database (txt) |
Descriptives for acoustic parameters |
Contains descriptives for acoustic measurements by emotion (open access) |
Click here to download => soundfiles descriptives (MS Excel) |
Results of the validation study (96 participants) |
Contains the full results database of the identification study. Readme file |
Click here to download => the full results file (txt) Click here to download => the full results file (MS Excel) Click here to download => the full results file (csv) Click here to download => the full results file (SPSS sav) |
Darcy, I., & Fontaine, N. M. G. (2020). The Hoosier Vocal Emotions Corpus: A validated set of North American English pseudo-words for evaluating emotion processing. Behavior Research Methods, 52(2), 901-917. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-019-01288-0 [pdf]
In this paper, we describe the corpus (rather: the collection) as well as a validation study of the pseudo-words. A total of 96 native English speakers completed a forced-choice emotion identification task. All emotions were recognized better than chance overall, with substantial variability among the different tokens.
In this paper, we describe the corpus (rather: the collection) as well as a validation study of the pseudo-words. A total of 96 native English speakers completed a forced-choice emotion identification task. All emotions were recognized better than chance overall, with substantial variability among the different tokens.
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