Critical analysis of the impact of glottal features in the classification of clinical depression in speech

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 96-107

  Moore II, Elliot ^a   Clements, Mark A ^a   Peifer, John W ^b   Weisser, Lydia ^c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Mississippi State Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Depression; Glottal; Prosodics; Vocal tract; Voice source

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

DEPRESSION; GLOTTAL; PROSODICS; VOCAL TRACT; VOICE SOURCE;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; GLOTTIS; HUMAN; MALE; PITCH; PSYCHOANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPEECH; VOCAL CORD; VOICE; WAVEFORM;

DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; GLOTTIS; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH DISORDERS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 37349079113     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2007.900562     Document Type: Article

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