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People’s lived experience of mental illness often includes symptoms associated with several different conditions. The Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) is a well validated tool for collecting symptom self-reports that covers nine dimensions: depression, anxiety, phobia, paranoia, psychosis, OCD, hostility, somatisation, and interpersonal. In this paper, we investigate to what extent these dimensions are reflected in prosody. Prosody was characterised using five core principal components (PC) derived from GeMAPS analysis of a data set from 8 studies (14907 sound files, 990 participants). We used the data from a subset of 317
participants (5967 sound files, 4 studies) who had completed the BSI. Each BSI dimension shows a distinct pattern of correlations between the number of symptoms reported and our five PCs, but these patterns differ
when comparing undergraduates (more Caucasians, more females) and a patient sample (more African-Americans, more males). We conclude that speech corpora for mental health studies need better demographic balance.
participants (5967 sound files, 4 studies) who had completed the BSI. Each BSI dimension shows a distinct pattern of correlations between the number of symptoms reported and our five PCs, but these patterns differ
when comparing undergraduates (more Caucasians, more females) and a patient sample (more African-Americans, more males). We conclude that speech corpora for mental health studies need better demographic balance.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences ICPhS 2019 |
Subtitle of host publication | 5-9 August 2019, Melbourne, Australia |
Editors | Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain, Paul Warren |
Place of Publication | Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc. |
Publisher | Australian Speech Science & Technology Association Inc |
Pages | 3001-3005 |
Number of pages | 5 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-0-646-800069-1 |
Publication status | Published - 31 Aug 2019 |
Event | 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences - Melbourne, Australia Duration: 5 Aug 2019 → 9 Aug 2019 https://www.icphs2019.org/ |
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Conference | 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences |
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Abbreviated title | ICPhS 2019 |
Country/Territory | Australia |
City | Melbourne |
Period | 5/08/19 → 9/08/19 |
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