The tool can be used for early diagnosis.
There are three features that indicate signs of dementia: pauses in speech, word length or complexity, and speech intelligibility.
“A longer word, we assume, will have a higher degree of speech complexity rather than shorter words like ‘uh’ and ‘the.’ Tests were conducted on 237 English-speaking individuals and 46 Greek-speaking individuals. Approximately half were dementia patients and the second half were a control population.“It’s like a support tool for clinical diagnosis,” Shah said. “But we don’t foresee this tool to be a diagnostic tool in and of itself. It would need a human in the loop.”
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