SpEmoC: A Balanced Speaker-Segment Multimodal Emotion Benchmark
Understanding human emotions in spoken conversations is a key challenge in affective computing, with applications in empathetic AI, human computer interaction, and mental health monitoring. However, existing datasets vary in scale, emotion distribution, modality alignment, and data partitioning strategies, which can influence reliable cross-dataset generalization and minority-emotion modeling. We introduce SpEmoC a Speaking segment Emotion for Conversations comprising 306,544 raw clips from 3,100 English language movies and TV series. From these, 30,000 high quality, class balanced clips are c
