| Paper ID | SPE-57.4 |
| Paper Title |
DEEP NEURAL NETWORK EMBEDDINGS FOR THE ESTIMATION OF THE DEGREE OF SLEEPINESS |
| Authors |
José Vicente Egas-López, Gábor Gosztolya, University of Szeged, Hungary |
| Session | SPE-57: Speech, Depression and Sleepiness |
| Location | Gather.Town |
| Session Time: | Friday, 11 June, 14:00 - 14:45 |
| Presentation Time: | Friday, 11 June, 14:00 - 14:45 |
| Presentation |
Poster
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| Topic |
Speech Processing: [SPE-ANLS] Speech Analysis |
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| Abstract |
Estimating the degree of sleepiness from the human speech is an emerging research problem with straightforward applications. In this study, we employ the x-vector approach, currently the state-of-the-art in speaker recognition, as a neural network feature extractor to detect the level of sleepiness of a speaker. Besides using different corpora for fitting the x-vector DNN, we also experiment with adding noise and reverberation to the training samples. According to our experimental results for the publicly available Dusseldorf Sleepy Language Corpus, utilizing x-vector embeddings as features for Support Vector Regression consistently leads to competitive performance scores in sleepiness detection. In particular, we present the highest Spearman's correlation coefficient on the public corpus that was achieved by a single method. |
