Theses and Dissertations

Issuing Body

Mississippi State University

Advisor

Picone, Joseph

Committee Member

Baca, Julie

Committee Member

Lazarou, Georgios

Date of Degree

8-5-2006

Document Type

Graduate Thesis - Open Access

Major

Electrical Engineering

Degree Name

Master of Science

College

James Worth Bagley College of Engineering

Department

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Abstract

Applications of speech recognition have evolved in recent years from simple transcription tasks to metadata analysis. This thesis explores the use of speech recognition for automated fatigue detection. The fatigue detection system relies on accurate phonetic alignments from a speech recognition system. The main challenge addressed in this thesis was to make the process of phonetic alignment using speech recognition robust to out of vocabulary words. This requirement was achieved by incorporating confidence measures, which significantly reduce false positives in speech recognition output. This allowed the performance of the fatigue detection system to match the results of other cognitive tests based on the Sleep Onset Latency (SOL) and Sleep, Activity, Fatigue, and Task Effectiveness (SAFTE). Confidence measures reduced the squared error between voice-based fatigue prediction and SAFTE by 20% when 67.1% of the words in the test set were out of vocabulary words.

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11668/17358

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