Emotional hindi speech database

To carry out any research in the field of spoken language, the essential requirement is speech database. In this paper attempt are made to present the features of Hindi language, why we need speech corpora and the current status of speech corpora development for Hindi language. Speech databases have been used for speech recognition, speech synthesis, speaker recognition, language translation, emotion recognition, emotion conversion. An attempt has been made to create emotional speech corpus. A brief introduction of Emotional Hindi Speech database developed at IPEC is given. A study is also preformed to understand the effect of emotion over F0 Contour and spectrum.