Classifying the speech response of the brain using Gaussian hidden markov model (HMM) with independent component analysis (ICA)

The purpose of this paper is to determine whether electroencephalograpy (EEG) can be used as a tool for hearing impairment tests such as hearing screening. For this study, we recorded EEG responses to two syllables, /a/ and /u/, in Korean from three subjects at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology. The ultimate goal of this study is to classify speech sound data regardless of their size using EEG; however, as an initial stage of the study, we classified only two different speech syllables using Gaussian hidden markov model. The result of this study shows a possibility that EEG could be used for hearing screening and other diagnostic tools related to speech perception.