Automatic Recording and Analysis of Somniloquy Through the Use of Mobile Devices to Support the Diagnosis of Psychological Pathologies

Abstract

Somniloquy is a parasomnia that refers to talking aloud while sleep. This parasomnia usually happens during transitory arousals from NREM sleep. The recording of these parasomnias could be useful to help in the diagnosis of certain psychological pathologies given that they can reflect a state of anxiety or some behaviors which could be identified as psychological diagnosis criteria. In this work-in-progress paper, a mobile platform which only records sleep-talking (excluding other noises or sounds) and analyze them to identify the main emotion in the voice, allowing making a transcription of the conversation, is presented.