across ve sessions
where each session has two new speakers. Around half the
database contains scripted content, actors rehearsed and
acted play scripts that portrayed a range of emotions. The
rest of the database consists of spontaneous conversations
where the participants were given an initial scenario to improvise
on. For example: an interaction between a frustrated
customer and sta member, and someone sharing the news
of a new marriage with a close friend. The scenarios and
play scripts were the same in each of the 5 sessions. Each
utterance is annotated with a range of discrete labels (e.g.
`happy'), as well as the continuous descriptors valence, activation
and dominance. Word-level transcriptions are provided
for all of the utterances in the database.