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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2017
Filed:
May. 23, 2014
Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Stefan Scherer, Cincinnati, OH (US);
John P. Pestian, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Louis-Philippe Morency, Cincinnati, OH (US);
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER, Cincinnati, OH (US);
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for assessing suicide risk for a human subject including receiving recorded voice data of the subject; and classifying the subject as suicidal or non-suicidal based upon a computerized analysis of one or more nonverbal characteristics of the speech data, especially features associated with a breathy phonation type. The analysis of the nonverbal characteristics of the voice data can include an analysis of acoustic characteristics of speech, and/or an analysis of prosodic and voice quality-related features of the voice data. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.