Major depressive disorder discrimination using vocal acoustic features

• Published in: Journal of affective disorders Vol. 225; pp. 214 - 220
• Main Authors: Taguchi, Takaya, Tachikawa, Hirokazu, Nemoto, Kiyotaka, Suzuki, Masayuki, Nagano, Toru, Tachibana, Ryuki, Nishimura, Masafumi, Arai, Tetsuaki
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 01.01.2018
• Subjects: Acoustic features; Adult; Aged; Biomarker; Depression; Depressive Disorder, Major - diagnosis; Discriminant Analysis; Female; Humans; Male; MFCC; Middle Aged; Psychiatric/Mental Health; Speech Acoustics; Voice analysis; Voice Disorders - diagnosis; Young Adult; Depression; Biomarker; Discriminant analysis; Voice analysis; MFCC; Acoustic features

The voice carries various information produced by vibrations of the vocal cords and the vocal tract. Though many studies have reported a relationship between vocal acoustic features and depression, including mel-frequency cepstrum coefficients (MFCCs) which applied to speech recognition, there have...