Title
Intoxicated Speech Detection: A Fusion Framework with Speaker-Normalized Hierarchical Functionals and GMM Supervectors.
Abstract
Segmental and suprasegmental speech signal modulations offer information about paralinguistic content such as affect, age and gender, pathology, and speaker state. Speaker state encompasses medium-term, temporary physiological phenomena influenced by internal or external biochemical actions (e.g., sleepiness, alcohol intoxication). Perceptual and computational research indicates that detecting speaker state from speech is a challenging task. In this paper, we present a system constructed with multiple representations of prosodic and spectral features that provided the best result at the Intoxication Subchallenge of Interspeech 2011 on the Alcohol Language Corpus. We discuss the details of each classifier and show that fusion improves performance. We additionally address the question of how best to construct a speaker state detection system in terms of robust and practical marginalization of associated variability such as through modeling speakers, utterance type, gender, and utterance length. As is the case in human perception, speaker normalization provides significant improvements to our system. We show that a held-out set of baseline (sober) data can be used to achieve comparable gains to other speaker normalization techniques. Our fused frame-level statistic-functional systems, fused GMM systems, and final combined system achieve unweighted average recalls (UARs) of 69.7%, 65.1%, and 68.8%, respectively, on the test set. More consistent numbers compared to development set results occur with matched-prompt training, where the UARs are 70.4%, 66.2%, and 71.4%, respectively. The combined system improves over the Challenge baseline by 5.5% absolute (8.4% relative), also improving upon our previously best result.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1016/j.csl.2012.09.004
Computer Speech & Language
Keywords
Field
DocType
development set result,cognitive and motor load,speaker state detection system,fusion framework,best result,combined system,speaker normalization,speaker normalization technique,intoxicated speech detection,fused frame-level statistic-functional system,final combined system,gmm supervectors,speaker state,speaker-normalized hierarchical functionals,hierarchical features,fused gmm system,intoxication detection
Normalization (statistics),Paralanguage,Computer science,Voice activity detection,Utterance,Speech recognition,Speaker recognition,Artificial intelligence,Classifier (linguistics),Perception,Machine learning,Test set
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
28
2
0885-2308
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.46
20
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daniel Bone1467.12
Ming Li260.82
Matthew P. Black319213.67
Narayanan Shrikanth45558439.23