Probabilistic acoustic volume analysis for speech affected by depression

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1238-1242

  Cummins, Nicholas ^a,b   Sethu, Vidhyasaharan ^a   Epps, Julien ^a,b   Krajewski, Jarek ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^d Industrial Psychology Rhenish University of Applied Sciences Cologne   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic volume; Depression; Gaussian mixture models; Monte carlo approximation

Indexed keywords

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

DEPRESSION; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; MONTE-CARLO APPROXIMATIONS; SPECTRAL MEASURE; SPECTRAL VARIABILITY; SPEECH MOTOR CONTROL; VOLUME ANALYSIS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84910091528     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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