Speech in Minimal Invasive Surgery – Towards an Affective Language Resource of Real-life Medical Operations

There is a clear desire to collect language resources of utmost realism with respect to spontaneity of speech and naturalness of emotion. This goal is difficult to obtain as a setting is needed that provides sufficient ‘emotional moments’ while these shall not be disturbed by the speakers’ awareness of recording. An obvious setting seems to be collecting surgeon’s speech during real-life operations: considering the responsibility of patients’ health and life, emotion can be assumed to be present and at the same time natural – there simply is not the time of wasting thoughts on the fact that one is being recorded.