FAU Aibo Emotion Corpus

Spontaneous, emotionally colored speech of children interacting with Sony's pet robot Aibo

The corpus consists of 9 hours of German speech of 51 children at the age 10-13 years interacting with Sony's pet robot Aibo.

Spontaneous, emotionally colored children's speech has been recorded via a close-talk microphone.

The audio recordings of the children have been segmented manually into small, syntactically meaningful 'chunks' using syntactic-prosodic criteria.

The data is annotated with 11 emotion categories by five human labelers on the word level.

We provide

• audio files (wav format, mono, 16bit, 16kHz) for the chunks
• German transliteration of the audio data
• corresponding German lexicon of all transcribed words
• information about the gender and the age of the children
• original emotion labels of the five human labelers for each word
• one emotion label for the whole chunk

Fee: 150 Euro 

For a detailed description of the FAU Aibo Emotion Corpus, please download my PhD thesis.

The FAU Aibo Emotion Corpus can be obtained for sole scientific, non-commercial use.

To obtain the corpus, please

• fill out the license agreement in duplicate,
• have it signed by the head of your research group, institute, etc. (in general by a professor), and
• send it by mail to:

 You will then receive a package containing the data dvd and the invoice with detailed payment instructions (bank account information, etc.).