跨语言分析自闭症儿童语音特征,发现部分声音线索具有普适性。
Classification of Autistic and Non-Autistic Children's Speech: A Cross-Linguistic Study in Finnish, French, and Slovak
- 基于多语言语音数据,用声学特征进行自闭症分类
- 芬兰语模型表现最好,跨语言迁移对法语效果差
- 部分语音线索跨语言通用,适合临床辅助诊断研究
我们开展了一项针对芬兰语、法语和斯洛伐克语中自闭症与非自闭症儿童语音的跨语言研究。结合监督分类与同语言及跨语料库迁移实验,评估模型在不同语言间的分类性能,并探究哪些声学线索具有语言特异性或普遍性。使用大量声学-韵律特征构建了以分析为目的的说话人级分类基准。同语言模型在说话人级交叉验证下表现不一:芬兰语模型最佳(准确率0.84,F1值0.88),斯洛伐克语次之(准确率0.63,F1值0.68),法语最差(准确率0.68,F1值0.56)。全语料合并训练模型总体准确率为0.61,F1值0.68。剔除一语料的留一法测试显示,向斯洛伐克语(F1 0.70)和芬兰语(F1 0.78)迁移较成功,但向法语迁移较差(F1 0.42)。跨语言特征重要性分析表明,部分声学标记存在共通性,但并非完全语言无关。结果提示,某些自闭症相关语音线索可在类型差异大的语言间泛化,但实现稳健跨语言分类仍需考虑语言特异性建模与更一致的录音条件。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
We present a cross-linguistic study of speech in autistic and non-autistic children speaking Finnish, French, and Slovak. We combine supervised classification with within-language and cross-corpus transfer experiments to evaluate classification performance within and across languages and to probe which acoustic cues are language-specific versus language-general. Using a large set of acoustic-prosodic features, we implement speaker-level classification benchmarks as an analytical tool rather than to seek state-of-the-art performance. Within-language models, evaluated with speaker-level cross-validation, yielded heterogeneous results. The Finnish model performed best (Accuracy 0.84, F1 0.88), followed by Slovak (Accuracy 0.63, F1 0.68) and French (Accuracy 0.68, F1 0.56). We then tested cross-language generalization. A model trained on all pooled corpora reached an overall Accuracy of 0.61 and F1 0.68. Leave-one-corpus-out experiments, which test transfer to an unseen language, showed moderate success when testing on Slovak (F1 0.70) and Finnish (F1 0.78), but poor transfer to French (F1 0.42). Feature-importance analyses across languages highlighted partially shared, but not fully language-invariant, acoustic markers of autism. These findings suggest that some autism-related speech cues generalize across typologically distinct languages, but robust cross-linguistic classifiers will likely require language-aware modeling and more homogeneous recording conditions.
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