A recent study conducted by the USC Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab (SAIL) in collaboration with the University of California, Los Angeles suggests that AI can accurately decipher the mental health of people from speech.

“Listening to people has always been at the core of psychiatry. Our approach builds on that fundamental technique to hear what people are saying using modern AI. We hope this will help us better understand how our patients are doing and transform mental health care to be more personalized and proactive to what an individual needs,” said lead author of the study Dr. Armen Arevian, Director of the Jane and Terry Semel Institute Innovation Lab.