Automatic speech and singing classification in ambulatory recordings for normal and disordered voices

J Acoust Soc Am. 2019 Jul;146(1):EL22. doi: 10.1121/1.5115804.

Abstract

Ambulatory voice monitoring is a promising tool for investigating phonotraumatic vocal hyperfunction (PVH), associated with the development of vocal fold lesions. Since many patients with PVH are professional vocalists, a classifier was developed to better understand phonatory mechanisms during speech and singing. Twenty singers with PVH and 20 matched healthy controls were monitored with a neck-surface accelerometer-based ambulatory voice monitor. An expert-labeled ground truth data set was used to train a logistic regression on 15 subject-pairs with fundamental frequency and autocorrelation peak amplitude as input features. Overall classification accuracy of 94.2% was achieved on the held-out test set.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Monitoring, Ambulatory / methods
  • Singing / physiology*
  • Speech / physiology*
  • Vocal Cords / physiopathology
  • Voice / physiology*
  • Voice Disorders / physiopathology*