A Review on Emotional Speech Databases

Due to its numerous practical applications, human emotion recognition from speech is now a challenging and demanding research subject for scientists. The Speech databases, speech features, and classifiers are the important factors for recognizing emotions from speech. The availability of suitable emotional speech databases is the first step for Speech Emotion Recognition (SER). This paper presents a comprehensive literature review of emotional speech databases. The availability of appropriate emotional speech databases in all emotions and languages are summarized. A total of 26 papers for the emotional speech database have been reviewed. It determines which speech databases are often used and also identifies popular speech databases and the languages in which the majority of the databases are available.