Application of an Isolated Word Speech Recognition System in the Field of Mental Health Consultation: Development and Usability Study
Authors: Weifeng Fu
Journal: JMIR Medical Informatics (2020)
Discipline: CLINICAL MEDICINE
Keywords: HMM; hidden Markov model; isolated words; mental health; programming
Affiliations: Liberal Arts College, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China.

Abstract:  Background: Speech recognition is a technology that enables machines to understand human language. Objective: In this study, speech recognition of isolated words from a small vocabulary was applied to the field of mental health counseling. Methods: A software platform was used to establish a human-machine chat for psychological counselling. The software uses voice recognition technology to decode the user's voice information. The software system analyzes and processes the user's voice information according to many internal related databases, and then gives the user accurate feedback. For users who need psychological treatment, the system provides them with psychological education. Results: The speech recognition system included features such as speech extraction, endpoint detection, feature value extraction, training data, and speech recognition. Conclusions: The Hidden Markov Model was adopted, based on multithread programming under a VC2005 compilation environment, to realize the parallel operation of the algorithm and improve the efficiency of speech recognition. After the design was completed, simulation debugging was performed in the laboratory. The experimental results showed that the designed program met the basic requirements of a speech recognition system. 

Retracted: No

PubPeer comments:
 Five PubMed-indexed editorials with the same 3 authors published simultaneously. None of them cites the other, nor indicates that the same editorial was published simultaneously in 5 different journals. Norman K. Fry, Helina Marshall, Tasha Mellins-Cohen (2019) In praise of preprints. Microb Genom. 5(4). doi: 10.1099 mgen.0.000259; PMID: 30938670 Norman K. Fry, Helina Marshall, Tasha Mellins-Cohen (2019) In praise of preprints. Microbiology 165(5):489-491. doi: 10.1099 mic.0.000785; PMID: 30938669 Norman K. Fry, Helina Marshall, Tasha Mellins-Cohen (2019) In praise of preprints. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol, 69(7):1841-1843. doi: 10.1099 ijsem.0.003323; PMID: 30938668 Norman K. Fry, Helina Marshall, Tasha Mellins-Cohen (2019) In praise of preprints. J Med Microbiol, 68(4):503-505. doi: 10.1099 jmm.0.000954; PMID: 30938663 Norman K. Fry, Helina Marshall, Tasha Mellins-Cohen (2019) In praise of preprints. J Gen Virol, 100(5):733-735. doi: 10.1099 jgv.0.001239; PMID: 30938662 Notes: 1. In all 5 editorials: u201cAuthor contributions T.u2009M-C. prepared the initial draft. N.u2009K.u2009F. developed the manuscript in consultation with H.u2009M. and T.u2009M-C. All authors commented on and agreed the final version.u201d 2. In all 5 editorials: u201cConflicts of interest N. K. F. is Co-Editor in Chief for the Journal of Medical Microbiology, a Microbiology Society journal; H. M. is an Editor Mentee for Access Microbiology, a Microbiology Society journal; T. M-C is Director of Publishing for the Microbiology Society. The authors declare no other conflicts of interest.u201d 3. u201cThis is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.u201d This only appears in the Microb Genom. paper. 4. Four of the 5 editorials state u201cu00a9 2019 The Authorsu201d while the IJSEM editorial states u201cu00a9 2019 IUMSu201d. , 
 #1 Thank you for the flag. The editorial was co-published across the Microbiology Society s portfolio of journals, and we will have a note to that effect added on all items immediately. , 
 Tasha Mellins-Cohen, very kind of you to respond. Unlike the other four duplicate editorials, which were published on 02 April 2019, on the website of this this one, it is stated  Published 01 April 2019 . Strictly speaking, this editorial was published first. Why then are the other four editorials not retracted? It is not easy to identify any ethics page on this Microbiology Society journal web-page that explains the ethics of duplicate publication for authors, including on these pages: https: www.microbiologyresearch.org prepare-an-article https: www.microbiologyresearch.org submit-an-article https: www.microbiologyresearch.org forms-and-templates Could you kindly guide readers to the web-page that describes the ethical clauses related to a submission to your journals. , 
 #3 To take your questions in order 1. Given the importance of open scholarship, including preprints, we wished to ensure that our position on preprints was clear for all our journals, including the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, which is owned by IUMS. We chose to do this by co-publishing the editorial across the portfolio. 2. An ethics page has been on our site for several years, at https: www.microbiologyresearch.org ethics-policies and ethics policies are also called out throughout the information for authors pages, at the relevant points. We do reference duplicate publication of research articles on the policy page, but our understanding is that this applies to research articles, not to editorials. We shall lodge a query with COPE and abide by their decision on the matter. ,