Patent Document ID: 20150318002
Application ID: 14702215
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of detecting a speech-identifiable condition of a subject, the method comprising: receiving speech data of the subject; performing, in a feature extraction module, a low-level feature extraction on the speech data over a plurality of short-time segments to develop low-level feature data; performing, in the feature extraction module, a statistical analysis of the low-level feature data over a window of time to develop segment-level feature data, where the window of time comprises the plurality of short time segments, and wherein the segment-level feature data is non-lexical data; applying the segment-level feature data to a decision module having a database of one or more classification rules, each classification rule corresponding to a different classification of the speech-identifiable condition; and determining, in the decision module, the classification of the speech-identifiable condition of the subject from the segment-level feature data.