Automatic Assessment of Loneliness in Older Adults Using Speech Analysis on Responses to Daily Life Questions.

ABSTRACT: Loneliness is a perceived state of social and emotional isolation that has been associated with a wide range of adverse health effects in older adults. Automatically assessing loneliness by passively monitoring daily behaviors could potentially contribute to early detection and intervention for mitigating loneliness. Speech data has been successfully used for inferring changes in emotional states and mental health conditions, but its association with loneliness in older adults remains unexplored. In this study, we developed a tablet-based application and collected speech responses of 57 older adults to daily life questions regarding, for example, one's feelings and future travel plans. From audio data of these speech responses, we automatically extracted speech features characterizing acou

SUBMITTER: Yamada Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8710612 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature