MFCC-BASED REMOTE PATHOLOGY DETECTION ON SPEECH TRANSMITTED THROUGH THE TELEPHONE CHANNEL - Impact of Linear Distortions: Band Limitation, Frequency Response and Noise

Rubén Fraile, Nicolás Sáenz-Lechón, Juan I. Godino-Llorente, Víctor Osma-Ruiz, Corinne Fredouille

2009

Abstract

Advances in speech signal analysis during the last decade have allowed the development of automatic algorithms for a non-invasive detection fo laryngeal pathologies. Performance assessment of such techniques reveals that classification success rates over 90% are achievable. Bearing in mind the extension of these automatic methods to remote diagnosis scenarios, this paper analyses the performance of a pathology detector based on Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients when the speech signal has undergone the distortion of an analogue communications channel, namely the phone channel. Such channel is modeled as a concatenation of linear effects. It is shown that while the overall performance of the system is degraded, success rates in the range of 80% can still be achieved. This study also shows that the performance degradation is mainly due to band limitation and noise addition.

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Fraile R., Sáenz-Lechón N., Godino-Llorente J., Osma-Ruiz V. and Fredouille C. (2009). MFCC-BASED REMOTE PATHOLOGY DETECTION ON SPEECH TRANSMITTED THROUGH THE TELEPHONE CHANNEL - Impact of Linear Distortions: Band Limitation, Frequency Response and Noise . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111-65-4, pages 41-48. DOI: 10.5220/0001534200410048


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@conference{biosignals09,
author={Rubén Fraile and Nicolás Sáenz-Lechón and Juan I. Godino-Llorente and Víctor Osma-Ruiz and Corinne Fredouille},
title={MFCC-BASED REMOTE PATHOLOGY DETECTION ON SPEECH TRANSMITTED THROUGH THE TELEPHONE CHANNEL - Impact of Linear Distortions: Band Limitation, Frequency Response and Noise},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={41-48},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001534200410048},
isbn={978-989-8111-65-4},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2009)
TI - MFCC-BASED REMOTE PATHOLOGY DETECTION ON SPEECH TRANSMITTED THROUGH THE TELEPHONE CHANNEL - Impact of Linear Distortions: Band Limitation, Frequency Response and Noise
SN - 978-989-8111-65-4
AU - Fraile R.
AU - Sáenz-Lechón N.
AU - Godino-Llorente J.
AU - Osma-Ruiz V.
AU - Fredouille C.
PY - 2009
SP - 41
EP - 48
DO - 10.5220/0001534200410048