Assessment of Respiratory Disorders Using Speech Parameters

In today�s scenario detection of diseases using voice analysis has become one of the important research topic. In order to determine if the person is suffering from some kind of illness, the information extracted by voice analysis about the person�s health can be helpful, as a number of pathological disorders are related with nasal, neural, respiratory and larynx diseases etc. In this paper, the analysis of voice parameters is done in order to differentiate between normal and affected person. The speech samples are recorded and Pitch , formant frequencies, intensity was extracted from the speech signals. The mean values variation of these parameters is used in identifying the difference between normal and affected person