Title
Using Prosodic And Spectral Features In Detecting Depression In Elderly Males
Abstract
As research in speech processing has matured, there has been much interest in paralinguistic speech processing problems including the speaker's mental and psychological health. In this study, we focus on speech features that can identify the speaker's emotional health, i.e., whether the speaker is depressed or not. We use prosodic speech measurements, such as pitch and energy, in addition to spectral features, such as formants and spectral tilt, and compute statistics of these features over different regions of the speech signal. These statistics are used as input features to a discriminative classifier that predicts the speaker's depression state. We find that with an N-fold leave-one-out cross-validation setup, we can achieve a prediction accuracy of 81.3%, where random guess is 50%.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2011
12TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2011 (INTERSPEECH 2011), VOLS 1-5
Depression, Emotion Detection, Prosodic Features
Field
DocType
Citations 
Speech processing,Paralanguage,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Speech recognition,Artificial intelligence,Formant,Classifier (linguistics),Discriminative model
Conference
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.73
14
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Michelle Hewlett Sanchez1101.47
Dimitra Vergyri237336.97
Luciana Ferrer359748.55
Colleen Richey411810.91
Pablo Garcia5936.98
Bruce Knoth6111.51
William Jarrold7143.10