GAUDIE: Development, Validation and Exploration of a Naturalistic German AUDItorily Emotional Database
Since thoroughly validated naturalistic affective German speech stimulus database are rare, we present here a novel validated database of speech sequences assembled with the purpose of emotion induction. The database comprises 37 audio speech sequences for the induction of positive, neutral, and negative emotion: comedian shows intending to elicit humorous and amusing feelings, weather forecast, and arguments between couples and relatives from movies or television series. Multiple continuous and discrete ratings are used to validate the database to capture the time course and variabilities of valence and arousal. We analyse and quantify how well the audio sequences fulfil quality criteria of differentiation, salience/strength, as well as generalizability across participants. Hence, we provide a validated speech database of naturalistic scenarios suitable to investigate emotion processing and its time course with German speaking participants.
The Git Repository comprises scripts to a) run the Experiment Study GAUDIE and b) preprocessed the GAUDIE database audio sequences using among others the toolbox librosa as well as to processed the data collected in the validation study. Analyses and results are published in
Lingelbach K., Vukelić, M., Rieger, J. W. (2023). GAUDIE: Development, Validation and Exploration of a Naturalistic German AUDItorily Induced Emotional Database. Behavior Research Methods (submitted).
When refering to the repository, GAUDIE database or validation study, please use the following citation:
Lingelbach K., Vukelić, M., Rieger, J. W. (2023). GAUDIE: Development, Validation and Exploration of a Naturalistic German AUDItorily Induced Emotional Database. Behavior Research Methods (submitted).