Database and Labeling

Abstract

This chapter explains the three databases recorded for this work as well as the labeling procedure. The first set of recordings comprises speech that is produced by a single professional actor who was given a fixed text passage to portray out of different personality perspectives. For a second series of records the actor was invited several times with recording sessions spread over several weeks. This time, the actor was presented images like photos, drawings or artwork. The images were selected to trigger emotions and feelings. Eventually, the actor was asked to speak freely about any associations when looking at the images while acting out of different personality perspectives. Because of database design this set provides the opportunity to analyze time- and text-dependency in personality expression at the same time. For a third series of recordings 64 native speakers were invited. The speakers were engaged in different conversational scenarios, no personality perspectives were induced. In addition, this set comprises two technical recording conditions, as half of the speakers were recorded with stand alone microphones while the other half were recorded with a headset. In order to generate personality labels listening tests were conducted for a range of selected stimuli using full NEO-FFI questionnaires.