TY - JOUR
T1 - The need for a harmonized speech dataset for Alzheimer’s disease biomarker development
AU - Bjorklund, Nicole L.
AU - Fillit, Howard
AU - Malzbender, Kristina
AU - Purushothama, Shobha
AU - Kourtis, Lampros
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2020.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This commentary is the product of a concerted effort to understand the needs, barriers, and gaps in the field of speech and language biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). It distills interviews, surveys, and extensive correspondence with global leaders in the areas of dementia research, clinical trials, linguistics, and data analytics into an idealized clinical-study design for the harmonized collection of voice recordings. The ultimate goal of the effort is to democratize the ongoing speech and language analytics efforts by making such rich datasets available to the wider research ecosystem.
AB - This commentary is the product of a concerted effort to understand the needs, barriers, and gaps in the field of speech and language biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). It distills interviews, surveys, and extensive correspondence with global leaders in the areas of dementia research, clinical trials, linguistics, and data analytics into an idealized clinical-study design for the harmonized collection of voice recordings. The ultimate goal of the effort is to democratize the ongoing speech and language analytics efforts by making such rich datasets available to the wider research ecosystem.
KW - Alzheimer’s disease
KW - Voice data collection
KW - acoustic and linguistic features
KW - cohort characterization
KW - neurodegenerative disease
KW - open-access database
KW - speech and language biomarkers
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85129574076&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.37349/emed.2020.00024
DO - 10.37349/emed.2020.00024
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85129574076
SN - 2692-3106
VL - 1
SP - 359
EP - 363
JO - Exploration of Medicine
JF - Exploration of Medicine
IS - 6
ER -