Huckvale, MA;
Beke, A;
(2017)
It Sounds Like You Have a Cold! Testing Voice Features for the Interspeech 2017 Computational Paralinguistics Cold Challenge.
In: Lacerda, F, (ed.)
Proceedings of Interspeech 2017.
(pp. pp. 3447-3451).
International Speech Communication Association (ISCA): Stockholm, Sweden.
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Abstract
This paper describes an evaluation of four different voice feature sets for detecting symptoms of the common cold in speech as part of the Interspeech 2017 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge. The challenge corpus consists of 630 speakers in three partitions, of which approximately one third had a “severe” cold at the time of recording. Success on the task is measured in terms of unweighted average recall of cold/not-cold classification from short extracts of the recordings. In this paper we review previous voice features used for studying changes in health and devise four basic types of features for evaluation: voice quality features, vowel spectra features, modulation spectra features, and spectral distribution features. The evaluation shows that each feature set provides some useful information to the task, with features from the modulation spectrogram being most effective. Feature-level fusion of the feature sets shows small performance improvements on the development test set. We discuss the results in terms of the most suitable features for detecting symptoms of cold and address issues arising from the design of the challenge.
Type: | Proceedings paper |
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Title: | It Sounds Like You Have a Cold! Testing Voice Features for the Interspeech 2017 Computational Paralinguistics Cold Challenge |
Event: | Interspeech 2017 |
Location: | Stockholm, Sweden |
Dates: | 21 August 2017 - 24 August 2017 |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.21437/Interspeech.2017-1261 |
Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2017-1261 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
Keywords: | Computational paralinguistics, common cold, respiratory tract infection, voice |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1573645 |
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