?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Towards+robust+paralinguistic+assessment+for+real-world+mobile+health+(mHealth)+monitoring%3A+an+initial+study+of+reverberation+effects+on+speech&rft.creator=Dineley%2C+J&rft.creator=Carr%2C+E&rft.creator=Matcham%2C+F&rft.creator=Downs%2C+J&rft.creator=Dobson%2C+R&rft.creator=Quatieri%2C+TF&rft.creator=Cummins%2C+N&rft.description=Speech+is+promising+as+an+objective%2C+convenient+tool+to+monitor+health+remotely+over+time+using+mobile+devices.+Numerous+paralinguistic+features+have+been+demonstrated+to+contain+salient+information+related+to+an+individual's+health.+However%2C+mobile+device+specification+and+acoustic+environments+vary+widely%2C+risking+the+reliability+of+the+extracted+features.+In+an+initial+step+towards+quantifying+these+effects%2C+we+report+the+variability+of+13+exemplar+paralinguistic+features+commonly+reported+in+the+speech-health+literature+and+extracted+from+the+speech+of+42+healthy+volunteers+recorded+consecutively+in+rooms+with+low+and+high+reverberation+with+one+budget+and+two+higher-end+smartphones%2C+and+a+condenser+microphone.+Our+results+show+reverberation+has+a+clear+effect+on+several+features%2C+in+particular+voice+quality+markers.+They+point+to+new+research+directions+investigating+how+best+to+record+and+process+in-the-wild+speech+for+reliable+longitudinal+health+state+assessment.&rft.subject=Measurement+error%2C+reproducibility%2C+acoustic%0D%0Aenvironment%2C+paralinguistics%2C+mobile+health&rft.publisher=ISCA&rft.date=2023&rft.type=Proceedings+paper&rft.language=eng&rft.source=+++++In%3A++Proceedings+of+the+Annual+Conference+of+the+International+Speech+Communication+Association%2C+INTERSPEECH.++(pp.+pp.+2373-2377).++ISCA+(2023)+++++&rft.format=text&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.ucl.ac.uk%2Fid%2Feprint%2F10181921%2F1%2F2305.12514.pdf&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.ucl.ac.uk%2Fid%2Feprint%2F10181921%2F&rft.rights=open