Emotional and/or psychiatric state detection
US9058816B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Aug 23, 2010 |
| Grant date | Jun 16, 2015 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 28, 2031 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG16H50/70
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
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.
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