Validation Methods

Since naturalistic affective German speech stimulus databases are rare, we present a novel validated and online accessible database of speech sequences for emotion induction. Our GAUDIE stimulus database serves the purpose of inducing positive emotions using comedian shows, neutral emotions using weather forecasts, and negative emotions using arguments between couples and relatives. The validated naturalistic stimulus database GAUDIE annotated with multiple emotion ratings fills a gap as a German emotion inducing speech database.

Despite a great need in the German-speaking area, thoroughly validated naturalistic speech stimulus databases for emotion induction are …