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Novel 'Speech Clock' Can Estimate a Person's Chronological Age

The model analyzed hundreds of vocal features and linked older-sounding speech to poorer cognition, MRI brain changes and elevated Alzheimer’s biomarkers.

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A large study shows that machine-learning clocks based on speech can estimate chronological age and may also offer a window into brain aging, biological aging, cognitive health, cumulative burden, and dementia.

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The tool was able to detect which people were healthy and which others had mild cognitive impairment and different types of dementia.

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AGI - The way a person speaks can provide information not only about his age, but also about the aging of the brain, the cognitive conditions and some biological indicators associated with age. This is what emerges from an international study of 2.928 Spanish speaking people in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru, published in Science Advances magazine. The 'speed and gap' Researchers, coordinated by Agustin Ibanez of Trinity College Dub…

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Nature broke the news in London, United Kingdom on Wednesday, September 30, 2026.
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