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  • Psychiatry
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Digital Health

Background:

  • Thought disorder, indicated by disorganized speech, is key in schizophrenia.
  • Traditional methods for assessing thought disorder have limitations.
  • Speech technologies offer potential for automated and enhanced assessment.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the application of speech technologies for assessing thought disorder in schizophrenia.
  • To identify opportunities for improving traditional clinical rating tasks using computational approaches.
  • To discuss the potential of digital language measures in clinical decision support systems.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing speech technologies to analyze patient speech patterns.
  • Applying computational approaches to automate scoring of speech-based assessments.
  • Developing digital measures of language for subtle sign detection.

Main Results:

  • Speech technologies can automate traditional clinical rating tasks.
  • Digital language measures may detect subtle clinically significant signs.
  • Voice data can potentially form core components of future clinical decision support systems.

Conclusions:

  • Speech technology presents opportunities to enhance schizophrenia assessment remotely and automatically.
  • Translating these technologies into clinically implementable tools faces challenges.
  • Ethical standards and transparent reporting are crucial for trustworthy AI in clinical science.