Detecting pathological speech using local and global characteristics of harmonic-to-noise ratio

Jung Won Lee, Hong Goo Kang, Samuel Kim, Yoonjae Lee

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Abstract

This paper proposes an efficient feature extraction method for automatic diagnosis systems to detect pathological subjects using continuous speech. Since continuous speech contains slow and rapid adjustments of vocal mechanisms which relate to initiations and terminations of voicing, the proposed algorithm utilizes both localized temporal characteristics and histogram-based global statistics of harmonic-to-noise ratio (HNR) to efficiently differentiate the key features from phonetic variation. Experimental results show that the proposed method improves the classification error rate by 11.2 % (relative) compared to the conventional method using HNR.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2013 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, APSIPA 2013
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Event2013 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, APSIPA 2013 - Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Province of China
Duration: 2013 Oct 292013 Nov 1

Publication series

Name2013 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, APSIPA 2013

Other

Other2013 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, APSIPA 2013
Country/TerritoryTaiwan, Province of China
CityKaohsiung
Period13/10/2913/11/1

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Information Systems
  • Signal Processing

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