MELD

by SenticNet group / NUS

Multimodal emotion corpus from Friends TV show — conversational emotion recognition.

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TL;DR

Best for conversational emotion recognition; multimodal (audio + video + text). Pricing: research-only.

Category
Open source
License
GPL-3.0
Stars
★ 1.1k
Last push
2026-05-17
Pricing
research-only
Platforms
GitHub

What it is

MELD extends EmotionLines with audio + video from Friends TV show. 13k utterances across 7 emotion classes in conversation. Audio/video copyright-bound.

Best for: Conversational emotion recognition; multimodal (audio + video + text).
Watch out for: GPL-3.0 metadata · audio-visual content from Friends TV show is COPYRIGHTED · research-only fair-use claim. Cite: Poria et al., ACL 2019.

Install / use

git clone https://github.com/declare-lab/MELD

Features

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

Links

GitHub repo ↗

MELD vs Whipscribe

FeatureMELDWhipscribe
CategoryOpen sourceTranscription APIs
Pricingresearch-only$4–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · $2 single unlock · 60 min free on signup
Speaker diarizationYesYes
Word timestampsNoYes
StreamingNoNo
Languages199
PlatformsGitHubWeb, API, MCP

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