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In this paper, we present our exploration of different machine-learning algorithms for detecting depression by analyzing the acoustic features of a person’s voice. We have conducted our study on benchmark datasets, in order to identify the best framework for the task, in anticipation of deploying it in a future application.
This work has been partially funded by the GRA Rice Graduate Scholarship in Communications, the AGE-WELL NCE and NSERC.
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Tasnim, M., Stroulia, E. (2019). Detecting Depression from Voice. In: Meurs, MJ., Rudzicz, F. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence. Canadian AI 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11489. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18305-9_47
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