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Spontaneous speech analysis, through acoustic and temporal parameters such as silence duration, phrasal segment length, and speech segment frequency, offers a rich window into the subtle cognitive and linguistic changes that reflect early memory decline in healthy older adults. Spontaneous speech performance could be a scalable, low-cost, and non-invasive diagnostic tool in proactive cognitive health.
Segkouli et al. (Thu,) studied this question.