The invention that is described herein identifies human characteristics by means of speech acoustics. It identifies and measures acoustic transformational structures that are contained in speech and determines the best fit between these structures and classified behaviors. It also determines the best fit between the structures of unclassified speech and the structures of speech previously classified as representing a human characteristic, in order to discern the presence of that characteristic in the human token associated with the unclassified speech sample. The invention is useful for identifying a wide variety of cognitive, emotional, linguistic, behavioral, and existential human characteristics.
Method and System to Identify Human Characteristics Using Speech Acoustics