Patent Document ID: 9763617
Application ID: 13561458
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of assessing a mental or physical condition of a subject, the method comprising in an automated system: inputting a speech waveform of the subject into the automated system; in the automated system, processing the speech waveform of the subject to locate occurrences of phones having symbols of a plurality of English phone symbols in the speech waveform; in the automated system, for each phone symbol of the plurality of phone symbols, extracting a value of at least one phone-specific prosodic or speech-excitation-source feature corresponding to said phone symbol from the occurrences of phones having said phone symbol located in the speech waveform of the subject; in the automated system, weighting the values of the extracted features corresponding to phone symbols with stored weights corresponding to said phone symbols to form values of a plurality of weighted extracted features and combining the values of the weighted extracted features to generate a combined measure that assesses the mental or physical condition of the subject, the stored weights derived from a correlation matrix representing correlations between the phone-specific features corresponding to the plurality of phone symbols and the mental or physical condition; and outputting an assessment of the condition using the generated combined measure.