Hi Nicholas, you may find the RAVDESS helpful in your paradigm. It's a validated multimodal database of emotional speech and song. It contain 7356 recordings in English, with 8 emotions: calm, happy, sad, angry, fearful, surprise, disgust, and neutral, each at two emotional intensities.
Article The Ryerson Audio-Visual Database of Emotional Speech and So...
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