Development of Javanese Speech Emotion Database (Java-SED)

Abstract

Javanese is one of the most widely spoken regional languages in Indonesia, alongside other regional languages. Emotions can be recognized in a variety of ways, including facial expression, behavior, and speech. The recognition of emotions through speech is a straightforward process, but the outcomes are quite significant. Currently, there is no database for identifying emotions in Javanese speech. This paper aims to describe the creation of a Javanese emotional speech database. Actors from the Kamasetra UNY community who are accustomed to performing in dramatic roles participated in the recording. The location where recordings are made is free of interference and noise. The actors of Kamasetra have simulated six types of emotions, including happy, sad, fear, angry, neutral, and surprised. The cast consists of ten people between the ages of 20 and 30, including five men and five women. Both humans (30 Javanese-speaking verifiers ranging in age from 17 to 50) and a machine learning system (30 Javanese-speaking verifiers with ages between 17 and 50) verify the database that has been created. The verification results indicate that the database can be used for Javanese emotion recognition. The developed database is offered as open-source and is freely available to the research community at this link https://beais-uny.id/dataset/