Detecting Depression in Speech Under Different Speaking Styles and Emotional Valences

Zhenyu Liu, Bin Hu*, Xiaoyu Li, Fei Liu, Gang Wang, Jing Yang

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Abstract

Detecting depression in speech is a hot topic in recent years. Some inconsistent results in previous researches imply a few important influence factors are ignored. In this paper, we investigated a sample of 184 subjects (108 females, 76 males) to examine the influence of speaking style and emotional valence on depression detection. First, classification accuracy was used to measure the influence of these two factors. Then, two-way analysis of variance was employed to determine interactive acoustical features. Finally, normalized features by subtracting got higher classification accuracies. Results show that both speaking style and emotional valence are important factors. Spontaneous speech is better than automatic speech and neutral is the best choice among three emotional valences in depression detection. Normalized features improve the detection performance.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBrain Informatics - International Conference, BI 2017, Proceedings
EditorsYi Zeng, Bo Xu, Maryann Martone, Yong He, Hanchuan Peng, Qingming Luo, Jeanette Hellgren Kotaleski
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages261-271
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9783319707716
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017
Externally publishedYes
EventInternational Conference on Brain Informatics, BI 2017 - Beijing, China
Duration: 16 Nov 201718 Nov 2017

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10654 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Brain Informatics, BI 2017
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period16/11/1718/11/17

Keywords

  • Depression
  • Emotional valence
  • Speaking style
  • Speech

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