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➢ Mundt database: 35 physician-referred patients assessed weekly over a period of 6 weeks.➢ Subject sessions were labeled as depressed if their HAM-D score was 17 or greater, and as non-depressed if their score was 7 or lower, with scores of 8 to 16 excluded because their depression status is ambiguous.➢ Based on clinical HAMD scores, only 6 patients showed the transition from depressed state to non-depressed state as listed in the Table 1.➢ The database used for this purpose consists of 3 utterances per person per day where they talked freely about their emotional state, physical state and ability to function.