A database for analysis of speech under physical stress: Detection of exercise intensity while running and talking

Khiet P. Truong; Arne Nieuwenhuys; Peter Beek; Vanessa Evers

A database for analysis of speech under physical stress: Detection of exercise intensity while running and talking

Khiet P. Truong, Arne Nieuwenhuys, Peter Beek, Vanessa Evers

Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences

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Abstract

One of the ways to gauge your own exercise intensity while running, is to assess your capability of talking while running: if you can still speak comfortably, you are running within the recommended intensity guidelines. This subjective way of estimating one's exercise intensity by talking (i.e. The Talk Test) motivated us to investigate how speech characteristics are affected during running and whether it is possible to develop a more objective way of estimating exercise intensity levels while running through voice analysis. To this end, we developed the Talk and Run Speech database that contains speech recorded from people before, during, and after running. We present our database and show that it is possible to detect exercise intensity below or above the anaerobic threshold in speech during running with a performance of 73.5% and 60.0% (unweighted average recall) for female and male speakers respectively.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of Interspeech
Subtitle of host publication	16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2015
Place of Publication	Baixas, France
Publisher	International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
Pages	3705-3709
Number of pages	5
Volume	2015-January
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2015 - Dresden, Germany Duration: 6 Sept 2015 → 10 Sept 2015

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Name	Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH
ISSN (Print)	2308-457X

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Conference	16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2015
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Dresden
Period	6/09/15 → 10/09/15

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Copyright © 2015 ISCA.

Keywords

Exercise intensity
Heart rate
Physical stress
Speaker state analysis
Speech database
Talk test

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Truong, K. P., Nieuwenhuys, A., Beek, P., & Evers, V. (2015). A database for analysis of speech under physical stress: Detection of exercise intensity while running and talking. In Proceedings of Interspeech: 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2015 (Vol. 2015-January, pp. 3705-3709). (Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH). International Speech Communication Association (ISCA).

Truong, Khiet P. ; Nieuwenhuys, Arne ; Beek, Peter et al. / A database for analysis of speech under physical stress : Detection of exercise intensity while running and talking. Proceedings of Interspeech: 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2015. Vol. 2015-January Baixas, France : International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), 2015. pp. 3705-3709 (Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH).

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Truong, KP, Nieuwenhuys, A, Beek, P & Evers, V 2015, A database for analysis of speech under physical stress: Detection of exercise intensity while running and talking. in Proceedings of Interspeech: 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2015. vol. 2015-January, Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), Baixas, France, pp. 3705-3709, 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2015, Dresden, Germany, 6/09/15.

A database for analysis of speech under physical stress: Detection of exercise intensity while running and talking. / Truong, Khiet P.; Nieuwenhuys, Arne; Beek, Peter et al.
Proceedings of Interspeech: 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2015. Vol. 2015-January Baixas, France: International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), 2015. p. 3705-3709 (Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH).

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Truong KP, Nieuwenhuys A, Beek P, Evers V. A database for analysis of speech under physical stress: Detection of exercise intensity while running and talking. In Proceedings of Interspeech: 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2015. Vol. 2015-January. Baixas, France: International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). 2015. p. 3705-3709. (Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH).

A database for analysis of speech under physical stress: Detection of exercise intensity while running and talking

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