US 9,070,357 B1 · Using speech analysis to assess a speaker's physiological health

Abstract

A method for using speech analysis to detect speech pathologies can begin with registration of a patient with a speech-based health monitor. A speech segment baseline representing an initial state of the patient's speech system can be established for the patient. When prompted, the patient can submit a speech segment representing a current state of the patient's speech system to the speech-based health monitor. The speech-based health monitor can analyze the submitted speech segment using the established speech segment baseline and/or a speech segment history that comprises speech segments previously submitted by the patient. Based upon said analysis, satisfaction of a health alert definition can be determined. A health alert definition can define an action performed by the speech-based health monitor when its associated triggering conditions are satisfied. The action associated with the at least one satisfied health alert definition can then be executed.

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A method comprising:

indexing, by a computer comprising hardware and software executing on the hardware, a plurality of health conditions of a human against a plurality of different health-related speech characteristics;
identifying, by the computer, a speech segment of a speaker;
analyzing, by the computer, the speech segment to determine a presence or absence of any of the health-related speech characteristics;
upon determining a presence of one of the health-related speech characteristics, determining, by the computer, a corresponding one of the health conditions consistent with the indexing;
and
generating, by the computer, an alert indicating that the speaker has a statistically significant likelihood of having the determined health condition based on results of the analyzing, wherein the speech segment is received from mobile computing device of the speaker, wherein the alert triggers an advertisement specific to the determined health condition to be sent over a network for presentation on the mobile communication device.

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A method for using speech analysis to detect speech pathologies comprising:

registering a patient with a speech-based health monitor;
establishing a speech segment baseline representing an initial state of the patient's speech with the speech-based health monitor;
when prompted by the speech-based health monitor, submitting of a speech segment to the speech-based health monitor by the patient, wherein the submitted speech segment represents a current state of the patient's speech system;
analyzing of the submitted speech segment by the speech-based health monitor with respect to at least one of the established speech segment baseline and a speech segment history associated with the patient, wherein the speech segment history comprises speech segments previously submitted by the patient;
based upon said analysis, determining of a satisfaction of at least one health alert definition by the speech-based health monitor, wherein a health alert definition defines at least one action performed by the speech-based health monitor when its associated triggering conditions are satisfied by the analysis;
and
executing the at least one action associated with the at least one satisfied health alert definition.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Using speech analysis to assess a speaker's physiological health

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Using speech analysis to assess a speaker's physiological health

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Abstract

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