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Appendix A Emotional Speech Databases Basque: Audiovisual Database of Emotional Speech in Basque by Navas et al. (2004a). Emotions: Anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, surprise, neutral Elicitation: Audio–visual recordings of a professional actress uttering isolated words and digits as well as sentences of different length, both with emotional content and emotion-independent content Size: 450 utterances with emotional content, 665 utterances with emotion- independent content, 1 female speaker. Basque: Emotional Speech Database for Corpus Based Synthesis in Basque by Saratxaga et al. (2006). Emotions: Anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, surprise, neutral Elicitation: Recordings of two speakers reading texts Size: 702 sentences per emotion (20 h of recordings in total), two speakers (one female, one male). Burmese: Emotional speech corpus by Nwe et al. (2001). Emotions: Anger, dislike, fear, happiness, sadness, surprise Elicitation: Recordings of two speakers uttering sentences experienced in daily life in different emotional states including rehearsals Size: 144 sentences (54 sentences of the first speaker, 90 sentences of the second speaker, 0.6 to 1.6 s per sentence), two speakers. Chinese: Emotional speech corpus by Yang and Campbell (2001). Emotions: Wide range of emotions Elicitation: Recordings of Mandarin Chinese speakers, combination of acoustic data from spontaneous conversation and experimental data from perceptual tests Size: 6 h of recorded speech. Chinese: Emotional speech database by Yuan et al. (2002). Emotions: Anger, fear, joy, sadness Elicitation: Speakers were asked to read the first paragraphs of a story evoking certain emotions. Recordings of the last paragraph plus two target sentences uttered emotionally Size: 288 target sentences, nine female speakers. Chi