Voice Signal Analysis with the Application in Biomedicine

Abstract

Voice pathology is the result of improper vocal use. Poor vocal exercise and repeated laryngeal infection may lead to worse voice quality and vocal stresses. This work uses glottal signal parameters obtained from speakers of distinct ages to identify voice disorders. The parameters obtained from the glottal signal, Mel Frequency Cepstrum Coefficients (MFCCs) and combination of glottal and MFFCs are used for pathological voice classification. Support Vector Machine (SVM) and K-Nearest Neighbours (KNN) algorithms are used. Results show that best classification results are achieved using combinations of MFFCs and with glottal parameters including MOQ, which is a novel outcome and most important involvement of this study, with an average efficiency improvement of 3%.