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Depression Detection from Short Utterances via Diverse Smartphones in Natural Environmental Conditions

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Huang, Zhaocheng, Epps, Julien, Joachim, Dale, Chen, Michael·2018·Interspeech 2018

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Depression is a leading cause of disease burden worldwide, however there is an unmet need for screening and diagnostic measures that can be widely deployed in real-world environments. Voice-based diagnostic methods are convenient, non-invasive to elicit, and can be collected and processed in near real-time using modern smartphones, smart speakers, and other devices. Studies in voice-based depression detection to date have primarily focused on laboratory-collected voice samples, which are not representative of typical user environments or devices. This paper conducts the first investigation of voice-based depression assessment techniques on real-world data from 887 speakers, recorded using a variety of different smartphones. Evaluations on 16 hours of speech show that conservative segment selection strategies using highly thresholded voice activity detection, coupled with tailored normalization approaches are effective for mitigating smartphone channel variability and background environmental noise. Together, these strategies can achieve F1 scores comparable with or better than those from a combination of clean recordings, a single recording environment and long utterances. The scalability of speech elicitation via smartphone allows detailed models dependent on gender, smartphone manufacturer and/or elicitation task. Interestingly, results herein suggest that normalization based on these criteria may be more effective than tailored models for detecting depressed speech.

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  1. Insel, T. R., "Digital phenotyping: Technology for a new science of behavior," JAMA -Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 318, no. 13, pp. 1215-1216, 2017.
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Authors
Huang, Z., Epps, J., Joachim, D., & Chen, M.
Affiliations
UNSW Sydney (AU)
Venue
Interspeech 2018
Publisher
ISCA
Published
2018-09-02
Pages
3393-3397
ISSN
2308-457X (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2888872770
Cited by
52
References
33
Citations by year
2025: 5 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 4
FWCI
4.57
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by-nc-nd
Locations
  • Interspeech (USB) (publishedVersion)
  • UNSWorks (UNSW Sydney) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Funders
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (DATA61)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Emotion and Mood Recognition
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Speech Recognition and Synthesis
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Signal Processing › Speech and Audio Processing
Keywords
depression detection, voice-based diagnosis, short utterances, voice activity detection, speech normalization, environmental noise, channel variation, speech elicitation, gender effects

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