CREMA-D

by CMU / Penn

7442 audio-visual emotional speech clips from 91 actors — open SER corpus.

TL;DR

7442 audio-visual emotional speech clips from 91 actors — open SER corpus.

Best for open SER with demographic diversity (gender, race, age). Pricing: free.

Category
Open source
License
—
Stars
—
Last push
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Pricing
free
Platforms
GitHub

What it is

CREMA-D is 7442 audio-visual clips from 91 actors of diverse demographics across 6 emotions. The most demographically diverse open SER corpus. License: ODC-By 1.0.

Best for: Open SER with demographic diversity (gender, race, age).
Watch out for: ODC-By 1.0 · 91 actors across ethnicities · 6 emotion classes. Cite: Cao et al., IEEE TAC 2014.

Install / use

git clone https://github.com/CheyneyComputerScience/CREMA-D

Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsNo
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supported1
HIPAA eligibleNo

CREMA-D vs Whipscribe

FeatureCREMA-DWhipscribe
CategoryOpen sourceTranscription APIs
Pricingfreefree beta
Speaker diarizationNoYes
Word timestampsNoYes
StreamingNoNo
Languages199
PlatformsGitHubWeb, API, MCP

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