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

Khiet Phuong 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 Phuong Truong, Arne Nieuwenhuys, Peter Beek, Vanessa Evers

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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 & 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
Place of Publication	Baixas, France
Publisher	International Speech Communication Association
Pages	3705-3709
Number of pages	5
Publication status	Published - Sept 2015
Event	16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2015 - Dresden, Germany Duration: 6 Sept 2015 → 10 Sept 2015 Conference number: 16 http://interspeech2015.org/

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of Interspeech
Publisher	International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
ISSN (Print)	1990-9772

Conference

Conference	16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2015
Abbreviated title	INTERSPEECH
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Dresden
Period	6/09/15 → 10/09/15
Internet address	http://interspeech2015.org/

Keywords

EWI-26646
physical stress
speech database
Speaker state analysis
METIS-315133
talk test
Heart rate
IR-98916
exercise intensity

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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 (pp. 3705-3709). (Proceedings of Interspeech). International Speech Communication Association. http://www.isca-speech.org/archive/interspeech_2015/papers/i15_3705.pdf

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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. Proceedings of Interspeech, International Speech Communication Association, Baixas, France, pp. 3705-3709, 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2015, Dresden, Germany, 6/09/15. <http://www.isca-speech.org/archive/interspeech_2015/papers/i15_3705.pdf>

A database for analysis of speech under physical stress: detection of exercise intensity while running and talking. / Truong, Khiet Phuong; Nieuwenhuys, Arne; Beek, Peter et al.
Proceedings of Interspeech. Baixas, France: International Speech Communication Association, 2015. p. 3705-3709 (Proceedings of Interspeech).

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