INTERSPEECH 2013 14thAnnual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association Lyon, France August 25-29, 2013

In-Home Detection of Distress Calls: The Case of Aged Users

Frédéric Aman, Michel Vacher, Solange Rossato, François Portet

LIG (UMR 5217), France

In the context of technologies development aiming at helping aged people to live independently at home, the CIRDO project aims at implementing an ASR system into a social inclusion product designed for elderly people in order to detect distress situations and provide capability to call for help. In this context we present a system able to detect distress and call for help sentences on line.

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Bibliographic reference.  Aman, Frédéric / Vacher, Michel / Rossato, Solange / Portet, François (2013): "In-home detection of distress calls: the case of aged users", In INTERSPEECH-2013, 2065-2067.