SMYLE: A new multimodal resource of talk-in-interaction including neuro-physiological signal

Abstract

This article presents the SMYLE corpus, the first multimodal corpus in French (16h) including neuro-physiological data from 60 participants engaged in face-to-face storytelling (8.2h) and free conversation tasks (7.8h). The originality of this corpus lies first in the fact that it bears all modalities, precisely synchronized and second in the addition for the first time at this scale of neuro-physiological modalities. It constitutes the first corpus of this size offering the opportunity to investigate cognitive characteristics of spontaneous conversation including at the brain level. The storytelling task comprises two conditions: a storyteller talking with a "normal" or a "distracted" listener. Contrasting normal and disrupted conversations allows to study at a behavioral, linguistic and cognitive levels the complex characteristics and organization of conversations.In this article, we present first the methodology developed to acquire and synchronize the different sources and types of signal. In a second part, we detail the large set of automatic, semi-automatic and manual annotations of the complete dataset. In a last section,