Speech Signal Processing Based on Wavelets and SVM for Vocal Tract Pathology Detection

  • Authors:
  • P. Kukharchik;I. Kheidorov;E. Bovbel;D. Ladeev

  • Affiliations:
  • Belarusian State University, Belarus 220050;Belarusian State University, Belarus 220050;Belarusian State University, Belarus 220050;Belarusian State University, Belarus 220050

  • Venue:
  • ICISP '08 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Image and Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This paper investigates the adaptation of modified wavelet-based features and support vector machines for vocal folds pathology detection. A new type of feature vector, based on continuous wavelet transform of input audio data is proposed for this task. Support vector machine was used as a classifier for testing the feature extraction procedure. The results of the experimental study are shown.