Acoustic-Prosodic Characteristics of Sleepy Speech - between Performance and Interpretation

Hönig FT, Batliner A, Nöth E, Schnieder S, Krajewski J (2014)

Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2014

Publisher: International Speech Communications Association

Edited Volumes: Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Pages Range: (to appear)

Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of the 7th Biennial meeting of the Speech Prosody Special Interest Group (SProSIG) of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) (Speech Prosody 2014)

Event location: Dublin, Ireland IE

URI: http://www5.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/Forschung/Publikationen/2014/Hoenig14-ACO.pdf

Abstract

When we address speaker states like sleepiness, two partly competing interests can be observed: both within applications and engineering approaches, we aim at utmost performance in terms of classification or regression accuracy-which normally means using a very large feature vector and a brute force approach. The other interest is interpretation: we want to know what tells apart atypical (here: sleepy) speech from typical (here: non-sleepy) speech, i.e., their respective feature characteristics. Both interests cannot be served at the same time. In this paper, we preselect a small number of easily interpretable acoustic-prosodic features modelling spectrum and prosody, based on the literature and on the general idea of sleepiness being characterised by relaxation. Performance obtained with these single features and this small feature vector is compared with the performance obtained with a very large feature vector; moreover, we discuss to which extent the features chosen model relaxation as sleepiness characteristic.

Authors with CRIS profile

Florian Thomas Hönig Lehrstuhl für Informatik 14 (Bild- und Sprachverarbeitung) Anton Batliner Lehrstuhl für Informatik 14 (Bild- und Sprachverarbeitung) Elmar Nöth Professur für Informatik (Mustererkennung)

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APA:

Hönig, F.T., Batliner, A., Nöth, E., Schnieder, S., & Krajewski, J. (2014). Acoustic-Prosodic Characteristics of Sleepy Speech - between Performance and Interpretation. In Proceedings of the 7th Biennial meeting of the Speech Prosody Special Interest Group (SProSIG) of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) (Speech Prosody 2014) (pp. (to appear)). Dublin, Ireland, IE: International Speech Communications Association.

MLA:

Hönig, Florian Thomas, et al. "Acoustic-Prosodic Characteristics of Sleepy Speech - between Performance and Interpretation." Proceedings of the 7th Biennial meeting of the Speech Prosody Special Interest Group (SProSIG) of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) (Speech Prosody 2014), Dublin, Ireland International Speech Communications Association, 2014. (to appear).

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