Acoustic analysis of the infant cry: classical and new methods

G Várallyay Jr; Z Benyó; A Illényi; Z Farkas; L Kovács

doi:10.1109/IEMBS.2004.1403155

Acoustic analysis of the infant cry: classical and new methods

Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2004:2006:313-6. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2004.1403155.

Authors

G Várallyay Jr¹, Z Benyó, A Illényi, Z Farkas, L Kovács

Affiliation

¹ Dept. of Control Eng. & Information Technol., Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary.

PMID: 17271673
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2004.1403155

Abstract

In the last few decades many papers have written about the analysis of the infant cry. The acoustic analysis has a shorter history than emotional, physiological, etc. investigations [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. This paper deals with classical and new methods of acoustic analysis of the infant cry. The final goal is to detect hearing disorders according to the crying at the earliest possible moment. Classical acoustic methods were reproduced and compared with solutions, which were not available before. This paper most of all deals with the characteristics of the fundamental frequency of the cry in the time and in the frequency domain.