Emotional and/or psychiatric state detection

摘要

Mental state of a person is classified in an automated manner by analysing natural speech of the person. A glottal waveform is extracted from a natural speech signal. Pre-determined parameters defining at least one diagnostic class of a class model are retrieved, the parameters determined from selected training glottal waveform features. The selected glottal waveform features are extracted from the signal. Current mental state of the person is classified by comparing extracted glottal waveform features with the parameters and class model. Feature extraction from a glottal waveform or other natural speech signal may involve determining spectral amplitudes of the signal, setting spectral amplitudes below a pre-defined threshold to zero and, for each of a plurality of sub bands, determining an area under the thresholded spectral amplitudes, and deriving signal feature parameters from the determined areas in accordance with a diagnostic class model.

主权项

1. A method of classifying a current mental state of a person by analysing natural speech of the person, the method comprising:
receiving a natural speech signal obtained from the person; pre-processing the natural speech signal to effect frame extraction; extracting a glottal waveform from frames of the speech signal; retrieving pre-determined parameters, the parameters being derived from selected training glottal waveform features and the parameters defining at least one diagnostic class in accordance with a classifier; extracting selected glottal waveform features from the glottal waveform of the speech signal; and classifying the current mental state of the person by comparing the extracted selected glottal waveform features with the parameters and the classifier.