Automatic detection of depressive states from speech

  • Aditi Mendiratta
  • , Filomena Scibelli
  • , Antonietta M. Esposito
  • , Vincenzo Capuano
  • , Laurence Likforman-Sulem
  • , Mauro N. Maldonato
  • , Alessandro Vinciarelli
  • , Anna Esposito

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Abstract

This paper investigates the acoustical and perceptual speech features that differentiate a depressed individual from a healthy one. The speech data gathered was a collection from both healthy and depressed subjects in the Italian language, each comprising of a read and spontaneous narrative. The pre-processing of this dataset was done using Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficient (MFCC). The speech samples were further processed using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) for correlation and dimensionality reduction. It was found that both groups differed with respect to the extracted speech features. To distinguish the depressed group from the healthy one on the basis the proposed speech processing algorithm the Self Organizing Map (SOM) algorithm was used. The clustering accuracy given by SOM’s was 80.67%.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSmart Innovation, Systems and Technologies
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages301-314
Number of pages14
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2017

Publication series

NameSmart Innovation, Systems and Technologies
Volume69
ISSN (Print)2190-3018
ISSN (Electronic)2190-3026

Keywords

  • Depression feature extraction
  • MFCC
  • PCA
  • Self organizing maps (SOM)
  • Speech analysis

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