DETECTION OF SPEECH UNDER STRESS USING SPECTRAL ANALYSIS

Neha P. Dhole

Abstract: This paper deals with an approach to the detection of speech in English language. The stress detection is necessary which provides real time information of state of mind of a person. Voice features from the speech signal is influenced by stress is MFCC is considered is this paper. To examine the effect of Exam-Stress on speech production an experiment was designed. First Year students of age group 18 to 20 were selected and assignment was given to them and instructs them that have viva on that assignment and their performance in the viva will decide their final internal marks in the examination. The experiment and the analysis of the test results are reported in this paper.

Keywords: Speech, Stress, Spectral Analysis, Discrete Wavelet Transform, Artificial Neural Network

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2013.0204033