This brief study presents and discusses a set of acoustic correlates for a number of vocal emotions (neutral, cold anger, hot anger, happiness, sadness, interest, and elation) simulated by two actors. Five short all-voiced sentences were used in the simulations. The 70 sentences (2 actors × 5 sentences × 7 emotions) were digitised and a number of acoustic analyses were carried out, which included a number of voice and perturbation measures.
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