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Area of Science:

  • Physiology
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Artificial Intelligence

Background:

  • Speech production relies on complex respiratory system coordination.
  • Accurate respiration rate monitoring is crucial for clinical diagnostics and remote patient care.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a deep learning model for predicting respiration rate directly from speech signals.
  • To assess the feasibility of using speech as a non-invasive, virtual sensor for respiratory monitoring.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a multivariate time series transformer model trained on bilingual speech data (N=1,005).
  • Employed speech encoder embeddings as input features for the deep learning model.
  • Evaluated model performance with a focus on accuracy (±3 BPM) and robustness in noisy environments.

Main Results:

  • The best model accurately predicted respiration rate within ±3 BPM for 82% of test subjects.
  • A noise-aware algorithm demonstrated the model's resilience to varying levels of background noise.
  • Speech was validated as a reliable proxy for respiration rate estimation.

Conclusions:

  • Speech can serve as an efficient and cost-effective virtual sensor for respiration rate.
  • This approach offers significant potential for advancing remote patient monitoring and telehealth solutions.