Investigating the speech characteristics of suicidal adolescents

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 709-713

  Scherer, Stefan ^a   Pestian, John ^b   Morency, Louis Philippe ^a  

^a Institute for Creative Technologies ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

classification; speech characteristics; Suicide prevention; voice quality; voice source model

Indexed keywords

MACHINE LEARNING APPROACHES; SPEECH FEATURES; SPEECH PATTERNS; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; SUICIDE PREVENTION; VOICE QUALITY; VOICE SOURCES;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SPEECH;

EID: 84890496203     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6637740     Document Type: Conference Paper

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