The Association between Depression Severity, Prosody, and Voice Acoustic Features in Women with Depression.

ABSTRACT: The aim was to define the association between the severity of depression, prosody, and voice acoustic features in women suffering from depression and its comparisons with nondepressed people. Prosody and acoustic features in 30 women with major depression hospitalized in a psychiatric ward and 30 healthy women were investigated in a cross-sectional study. To define the severity of depression, the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRS-D) was applied. Acoustic parameters such as jitter, shimmer, cepstral peak prominence (CPP), standard deviation of fundamental frequency (SD F0), harmonic-to-noise ratio, and F0 and also some speech prosodic features including the speed of speech, switching pause duration means, and durations of produced sentences with different modals were m

SUBMITTER: Seifpanahi MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10715859 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature