The Objective and Subjective Sleepiness Voice Corpora

Vincent P. Martin, Jean-Luc Rouas, Jean-Arthur Micoulaud Franchi, Pierre Philip


Abstract
Following patients with chronic sleep disorders involves multiple appointments between doctors and patients which often results in episodic follow-ups with unevenly spaced interviews. Speech technologies and virtual doctors can help improve this follow-up. However, there are still some challenges to overcome: sleepiness measurements are diverse and are not always correlated, and most past research focused on detecting nstantaneous sleepiness levels of healthy sleep-deprived subjects. This article presents a large database to assess the sleepiness level of highly phenotyped patients that complain from excessive daytime sleepiness. Based on the Multiple Sleep Latency Test, it differs from existing databases by multiple aspects. First, it is omposed of recordings from patients suffering from excessive daytime sleepiness instead of sleep deprived healthy subjects. Second, it incites the subjects to sleep contrary to existing stressing sleepiness deprivation experimental paradigms. Third, the sleepiness level of the patients is evaluated with different temporal granularities - long term sleepiness and short term sleepiness - and both objective and subjective sleepiness measures are collected. Finally, it relies on the recordings of 94 highly phenotyped patients, allowing to unravel the influences of different physical factors (age, sex, weight, ... ) on voice.
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2020.lrec-1.803
Volume:
Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Month:
May
Year:
2020
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Marseille, France
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association
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6523–6531
Language:
English
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.803
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Vincent P. Martin, Jean-Luc Rouas, Jean-Arthur Micoulaud Franchi, and Pierre Philip. 2020. The Objective and Subjective Sleepiness Voice Corpora. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 6523–6531, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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The Objective and Subjective Sleepiness Voice Corpora (Martin et al., LREC 2020)
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