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Variation and Change in Spoken and Written Discourse: Perspectives from corpus linguisticsEdited by Julia Bamford, Silvia Cavalieri and Giuliana Diani
[Dialogue Studies 21] 2013
► pp. 109–122
The Estonian Emotional Speech Corpus was created as an acoustic basis for synthesis of emotional speech. The present state of the Corpus enables an assessment of the choices made for its underlying theoretical model: whether it was justified to use non-acted speech and whether a difference has been established between the sentences where emotion is carried by voice only and those where sentence content may have influenced emotion identification.