Reduced vowel space is a robust indicator of psychological distress: A cross-corpus analysis

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

Volumn 2015-August, Issue , 2015, Pages 4789-4793

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

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Conversational speech; Depression; PTSD; Suicide; Vowel space

Indexed keywords

AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH; DEPRESSION; PTSD; SUICIDE; VOWEL SPACE;

SPEECH;

EID: 84944193756     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178880     Document Type: Conference Paper

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