Anxiety and Stress Detection through Speech Recognition using CNN

Stress is a feeling of emotional tension. It canhaveaninfluenceonourmentalhealth and for the people around us. While anxiety is a natural reaction tostresswhichcanbefearfulthiscanleadtopanicattacks. These mental issues have to be addressed byeveryone.Thispaperexplainshowweareusingvocal/audiodatasettodetectstressandanxietyinaperson.Wehavedevelopedastressandanxietydetection model using deep neural network. Here audiodatasets is considered from Kaggle in which the audioconsists of 7 emotions i.e., joy, fear, disgust, neutral,sadness, surprised and anger. These audio datasets areused to train and test classification models like CNN.Thentheaudioispre-processedthroughacousticfeatureextraction,classifiedthroughCNN whichprovidestheaccuracybased on those 7emotions. Bythiswecanpredictifthepersonisstressedorhasanxiety.