Hoosier Vocal Emotions Collection: Welcome to the Recordings Download page
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Thank you for your interest in the Hoosier Vocal Emotion Corpus. You are approved to use the stimuli from our website for research or clinical purposes. By downloading the files, you and members of your lab or clinic agree to use the sound files and/or the Textgrids for research or clinical purposes only and agree to the following terms:
- Please do not share these files with other researchers/clinicians (each researcher/clinician should make an individual request).
- Please destroy the sound files you didn’t use once the research or clinical project is completed and archived. We ask that you only archive the specific sound files you used.
- Please send us a copy of any publications using the stimuli.
- The reference you can use for these sound files should your project produce a manuscript is:
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.
Download information for sound files and TextGrid files
Note: Textgrids are small text files associated with each sound file. These are used within the free speech editing and analysis software Praat (www.praat.org) to visualize and annotate the sound files.
Note: Textgrids are small text files associated with each sound file. These are used within the free speech editing and analysis software Praat (www.praat.org) to visualize and annotate the sound files.
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Sound files |
Contains all the sound files in the collection (77.3 MB as zipped folder) |
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TextGrids for sound files |
Contains TextGrid files for each sound file (621 KB as zipped folder) |