Filtering and subspace selection for spectral features in detecting speech under physical stress
Jouni Pohjalainen, Paavo Alku · 2014
This paper investigates approaches to modeling the time evolution of short-time spectral features in paralinguistic s peech type classification, where we focus on detection of speech in fluenced by physical exertion. The time series model consist s of autoregressive processes of multiple time scales and orders and is trained to describe the long-term dynamics of a given target speech class. The model is applied in two ways in improving long-term modeling in the detection task: 1) to perform predictive filtering of the features and 2) to automatically select instantaneous classification subspaces. The spectrum analysis me thod underlying the short-time features is also varied between t he standard discrete Fourier transform and a time-weighted linear predictive method which yields smooth all-pole spectrum envelope models. Configurations of the proposed methods are eval uated in the Physical Load task of the Interspeech 2014 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge and show improvement over the baseline timbral classifier and the challenge baseline. Also the interrelationships among the methods are discussed. Index Terms: computational paralinguistics, physical load, modulation filtering, spectrum analysis