Speaker and Posture Classification using Instantaneous Intraspeech Breathing Features

05/25/2020

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by   Atıl İlerialkan, et al.

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Acoustic features extracted from speech are widely used in problems such as biometric speaker identification and first-person activity detection. However, the use of speech for such purposes raises privacy issues as the content is accessible to the processing party. In this work, we propose a method for speaker and posture classification using intraspeech breathing sounds. Instantaneous magnitude features are extracted using the Hilbert-Huang transform (HHT) and fed into a CNN-GRU network for classification of recordings from the open intraspeech breathing sound dataset, BreathBase, that we collected for this study. Using intraspeech breathing sounds, 87 classification, and 98