‘Small language’ AI detects depression in Korea

MobiHealth News September 17, 2024
Adam Ang

A Korean startup has developed a non-cloud diary app that records a user’s voice to spot signs of depression.

A new mental health diary app developed in South Korea leverages generative AI to early screen depression while securing sensitive user data.

HOW IT WORKS

Doctorpresso came up with a mobile app called REDI that analyses a user’s speech patterns and provides near real-time insights into their mental state.

Through AI, the app analyses four voice characteristics: average pitch, pitch variability, spectral centroid, and spectral roll-off. These factors, which reportedly change as depression worsens, are used to classify users, whether they are not depressed, have mild depression, or have a major depressive episode.

In a study in 2021,...

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