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| Title | Determining normal infants' level-of-distress from cry sounds |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 1993 |
| Authors | Xie, Q., R. K. Ward, and C. A. LASZLO |
| Conference Name | Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1993. Canadian Conference on |
| Pagination | 1094 -1096 vol.2 |
| Date Published | sep. |
| Keywords | bioacoustics, biomedical measurement, computer-based automatic infant cry analysis, computerized signal analysis, cry phonemes, cry sounds, H-value, level-of-distress determination, medical signal processing, normal infants, subjective parental assessments |
| Abstract | In this research a set of ten ldquo;cry phonemes rdquo; is introduced to effectively characterize cry signals from normal infants. The cry phonemes of recorded cries are correlated with subjective parental assessments of the infants' distress levels. From these correlations a single parameter, the H-value, is found as a reliable indicator to the infants' level-of-distress. The H-value can be measured and manipulated efficiently by using computerized signal analysis. This makes it suitable for computer-based automatic infant cry analysis |
| URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.1993.332267 |
| DOI | 10.1109/CCECE.1993.332267 |