Building and analysing emotion corpus of the Arabic speech

This paper presents the principal phase of extraction and recognition of the basic emotions in the Arabic speech applied to five emotional states were taken into effect; neutral, sadness, fear, anger and happiness. Emotional speech database REGIM TES [1] [23] was created and evaluated to provide all practical experiences of extraction. The selected descriptors in our study are; Pitch of voice, Energy, MFCCs, Formant, LPC and the spectrogram. Descriptors showed the importance of the Arabic language on the physiological events and the influence of culture on emotional behavior.