A company has figured out how to record someone’s conversations, analyze that data, and use it to figure out the likelihood of that person having a mental illness. Now it wants to use that technology in a smartphone app or in the Amazon Echo smart speaker to help psychiatrists diagnose their patients quickly and accurately.
NeuroLex Diagnostics chief executive Jim Schwoebel has already received an award from the American Psychiatric Association for this idea. Now he’s attempting to turn it into an actual product.
NeuroLex’s technologies work by analyzing someone’s speech for distinct patterns associated with mental illnesses like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or depression; developmental disorders like autism; chronic issues like high pain or fatigue; and life-threatening problems like strokes or Alzheimer’s disease.