The paper describes methodology for creating a Slovak database of speech
under stress and pilot observations. While the relationship between stress and speech
characteristics can be utilized in a wide domain of speech technology applications, its
research suffers from the lack of suitable databases, particularly in conversational speech. We
propose a novel procedure to record acted speech in the home of actors and using their own
smartphones. We describe both the collection of speech material under three levels of stress
and the subsequent annotation of stress levels in this material. First observations suggest
a reasonable inter-annotator agreement, as well as interesting avenues for the relationship
between the intended stress levels and those perceived in speech