Content analysis has a long history in clinical psychological research. Recently, it regains attention because of rapid technological developments in the field of data processing. This article introduces the Dresden Anxiety Dictionary (DAW), a German computerised version of the Gottschalk-Gleser anxiety scales. In the present study the validity of this new method was assessed. Measures of trait and state anxiety were administered to 60 subjects and speech samples were obtained. The DAW presented a good validity showing high correlations with conventionally derived Gottschalk-Gleser scores. The DAW showed also substantial correlations with another content analytic method, the Affective Dictionary Ulm (ADU). We found evidence that content analytic anxiety measures differ in their measurement construct from self-descriptive questionnaires (BAI and STAI) which is consistent with previous research findings.