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Evaluation of Supervised Learning Algorithms Based on Speech Features as Predictors to the Diagnosis of Mild to Moderate Intellectual Disability

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Due to age-bound onset of symptoms used for diagnosis of mild to moderate intellectual disability, early diagnosis of these problems has long been a difficult issue. The diagnosis includes tests pertaining to intellectual functioning and adaptive behaviours including communication skills etc. In this paper, it is proposed to use speech features as an early indicator of the disorder which can be used to train machine learning algorithms for differentiating between speech of normally developing children and children with intellectual disability. In this paper, speech abnormalities are quantified using acoustic parameters including Linear Predictive Cepstral Coefficients, Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients and spectral features in speech samples of 48 participants (24 with intellectual disability and 24 age-matched controls). A training dataset was created by extracting these features which was used for learning by various classifiers. The experiments show promising results where Support Vector Machine gives an accuracy of 98%. Consequently, a well-trained classification algorithm can be used as an aid in early detection of mild to moderate intellectual disability.

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Aggarwal, G., Singh, L. Evaluation of Supervised Learning Algorithms Based on Speech Features as Predictors to the Diagnosis of Mild to Moderate Intellectual Disability. 3D Res 9, 55 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13319-018-0207-6

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