A technology prototype system for rating therapist empathy from audio recordings in addiction counseling

Scaling up psychotherapy services such as for addiction counseling is a critical societal need. One challenge is ensuring quality of therapy, due to the heavy cost of manual observational assessment. This work proposes a speech technology-based system to automate the assessment of therapist empathy—...

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Main Authors: Bo Xiao, Chewei Huang, Zac E. Imel, David C. Atkins, Panayiotis Georgiou, Shrikanth S. Narayanan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2016-04-01
Series:PeerJ Computer Science
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/cs-59.pdf