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Title: Machine learning based automated speech dialog analysis of autistic children
Authors: Wijesinghe, A
Samarasinghe, P
Seneviratne, S
Yogarajah, P
Pulasinghe, K
Keywords: Machine Learning Based
Automated Speech
Dialog Analysis
Autistic Children
Issue Date: 24-Oct-2019
Publisher: IEEE
Citation: A. Wijesinghe, P. Samarasinghe, S. Seneviratne, P. Yogarajah and K. Pulasinghe, "Machine Learning Based Automated Speech Dialog Analysis Of Autistic Children," 2019 11th International Conference on Knowledge and Systems Engineering (KSE), 2019, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/KSE.2019.8919266.
Series/Report no.: 2019 11th International Conference on Knowledge and Systems Engineering (KSE);Pages 1-5
Abstract: Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have altered behaviors in communication, social interaction, and activity, out of which communication has been the most prominent disorder among many. Despite the recent technological advances, limited attention has been given to screening and diagnosing ASD by identifying the speech deficiencies (SD) of autistic children at early stages. This research focuses on bridging the gap in ASD screening by developing an automated system to distinguish autistic traits through speech analysis. Data was collected from 40 participants for the initial analysis and recordings were obtained from 17 participants. We considered a three-stage processing system; first stage utilizes thresholding for silence detection and Vocal Activity Detection for vocal isolation, second stage adopts machine learning technique neural network with frequency domain representations in developing a reliant utterance classifier for the isolated vocals and stage three also adopts machine learning technique neural network in recognizing autistic traits in speech patterns of the classified utterances. The results are promising in identifying SD of autistic children with the utterance classifier having 78% accuracy and pattern recognition 72% accuracy.
URI: http://rda.sliit.lk/handle/123456789/1928
ISSN: 2164-2508
Appears in Collections:Research Papers - IEEE
Research Papers - SLIIT Staff Publications
Research Publications -Dept of Information Technology

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