Cutting-edge AI is like a super hearing aid that can detect slight changes in the way someone talks, helping doctors diagnose Alzheimer’s and other types of memory loss even before other signs show up! A recent study used fancy…speech analyses to train computers how to spot potential red flags. It turns out that Alzheimer’s and other cognitive impairments can affect speech patterns in subtle ways that the human ear might miss. By leveraging advanced machine learning techniques, scientists are one step closer to creating a tool that could be as simple as analyzing the sound of your voice to catch early signs of diseases like dementia. So if you’ve ever heard someone say ‘your voice sounds different’ and thought they were weird, it turns out they might have been onto something!
