Yuezhou Zhang, Amos A Folarin, Judith Dineley, Pauline Conde, Valeria de Angel, Shaoxiong Sun, Yatharth Ranjan, Zulqarnain Rashid, Callum Stewart, Petroula Laiou, Heet Sankesara, Linglong Qian, Faith Matcham, Katie White, Carolin Oetzmann, Femke Lamers, Sara Siddi, Sara Simblett, Björn W Schuller, Srinivasan Vairavan, Til Wykes, Josep Maria Haro, Brenda W J H Penninx, Vaibhav A Narayan, Matthew Hotopf, Richard J B Dobson, Nicholas Cummins
BACKGROUND: Prior research has associated spoken language use with depression, yet studies often involve small or non-clinical samples and face challenges in the manual transcription of speech. This paper aimed to automatically identify depression-related topics in speech recordings collected from clinical samples. METHODS: The data included 3919 English free-response speech recordings collected via smartphones from 265 participants with a depression history. We transcribed speech recordings via automatic speech recognition (Whisper tool, OpenAI) and identified principal topics from transcriptions using a deep learning topic model (BERTopic)...
March 27, 2024: Journal of Affective Disorders