Fortune January 19, 2025
- Researchers debuted a new measure of identifying CEO depression by using AI learning models to analyze vocal features from earnings call recordings. This research has helped identify factors that may contribute to mental health challenges among executives.
CEOs might be able to give away mental health challenges just by how they talk about their companies’ earnings to investors. A study published this month in the Journal of Accounting Research used artificial intelligence to analyze chief executives’ speech recordings to identify depression.
Researchers from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business and the University of Kentucky debuted a measure of identifying the severity and prevalence of depression among chief executives by training AI language models to analyze vocal patterns...