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title: "EmoTale: An Enacted Speech-emotion Dataset in Danish (2025)"
description: "The authors introduce EmoTale, a corpus of acted emotional speech in Danish, with an optional English part. 0.85. agreement. 38 references."
authors: ["Maja J. Hjuler", "Harald V. Skat-R\\ordam", "Line H. Clemmensen", "Sneha Das"]
year: 2025
venue: "arXiv:2508.14548"
source: "https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14548"
doi: "10.48550/arxiv.2508.14548"
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# EmoTale: An Enacted Speech-emotion Dataset in Danish

**Authors:** Maja J. Hjuler, Harald V. Skat-R\\ordam, Line H. Clemmensen and Sneha Das · **Year:** 2025 · **Venue:** [arXiv:2508.14548](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-automatic-speech-recognition-and-understanding-workshop-asru/) ([ASRU 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-automatic-speech-recognition-and-understanding-workshop-asru/2025/)) · **Licence:** [CC BY 4.0 (arXiv)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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## Summary
Large emotional speech corpora exist for widely spoken languages, but Danish has had almost nothing beyond DES, a small 1997 database that was not built for speech emotion recognition (SER). The authors introduce EmoTale, a corpus of acted emotional speech in Danish, with an optional English part. Speakers with acting experience, including children, read five neutral, context-poor sentences adapted from Emo-DB, each in five emotions. Three annotators labelled every clip with a category and with arousal, valence and dominance scores.

To check that the recordings carry a usable emotional signal, the authors take two steps. First, they compare the human dimensional ratings with the outputs of a pretrained wav2vec2 model. Second, they train SER classifiers on EmoTale and on reference corpora in German, Urdu, Danish and Greek. Self-supervised embeddings outperform openSMILE hand-crafted features. The best model reaches 64.1% UAR under leave-one-speaker-out evaluation, which is close to the results on DES. The release gives Danish a test bed for checking SER systems, including on children, before deployment.

## Key points
- EmoTale has 450 Danish and 350 English recordings from 18 participants (12 female, 6 male), aged 9–39 with a mean of 22.8. Clips were recorded at 48 kHz WAV with RØDE Wireless Go microphones.
- There are five sentences translated from Emo-DB and five emotions: Neutral, Anger, Sadness, Happiness and Boredom. Filenames encode language, speaker, emotion and sentence, for example DK_004_A_5.wav.
- Agreement on categories, measured with Cohen's κ, was 0.71 between the two annotators. Agreement with the intended emotion was 0.75 and 0.85. Agreement on dimensions, measured with CCC, was 0.72 for arousal, 0.75 for valence and 0.57 for dominance.
- The validation compares human labels with w2v2-FT-dim, a wav2vec2 model fine-tuned on MSP-Podcast. The reference datasets are Emo-DB, Urdu, DES and AESDD.
- SSL embeddings beat openSMILE features, and the best leave-one-speaker-out UAR is 64.1%, comparable to performance on DES.

## Interesting ideas
- The carrier sentences are deliberately neutral and nearly context-free, so the label can only come from how they are delivered, not from the words
- Annotators independently guess the intended category, and their κ against the intended label measures how recoverable the intended signal is
- An off-the-shelf pretrained model serves as an extra rater, and its agreement with humans on the new corpus is compared against the same agreement on established corpora
- Leave-one-speaker-out cross-validation stops a model from scoring well just by recognising individual speakers

## For Mova

How these ideas could serve Mova, our small open language model — its files, stages and tests:

- **I1** (frames): build irony and speech-act test items where the same neutral sentence sits under different preceding contexts. This forces prag to rely on context rather than lexical cues.
- **I2** (learn): when an LLM teacher generates examples with a target label, have independent witnesses re-label them. Then keep only batches whose agreement with the intended label passes a threshold.
- **I3** (tree): when converting or adding a treebank, run the witness parsers on it and on a standard UD treebank. An unusually low score on the new data then flags conversion or annotation problems.
- **I4** (answer): evaluate the fable and tale QA readers leave-one-text-out, so memorised story-specific patterns cannot inflate the accuracy.

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## Cite

Cite as: Maja J. Hjuler, Harald V. Skat-R\\ordam, Line H. Clemmensen and Sneha Das. 2025. EmoTale: An Enacted Speech-emotion Dataset in Danish. arXiv:2508.14548.

The paper itself, not this page. BibTeX from the library's record of the work.

```bibtex
@misc{hjuler2025emotale,
  title = {{EmoTale: An Enacted Speech-emotion Dataset in Danish}},
  author = {Maja J. Hjuler, Harald V. Skat-Rordam, Line H. Clemmensen and Sneha Das},
  year = {2025},
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2508.14548},
  eprint = {2508.14548},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2508.14548}
}
```

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