Making a Smart Assessment of Mental State

Competitive advantage

• State-of-the-art speech-based assessment of depression via smartphone
• World leaders in automatic voice analysis

Impact

• Smartphone-based solutions will reach millions of patients worldwide, and allow collection of big data
• The technology also covers call-centre type solutions e.g. for automatically detecting suicidality in telephone calls

Successful outcomes

• Early trials currently being conducted by ARC Linkage partner SondeHealth, with large pharmaceutical companies
• Provisional patent currently being filed
• Extended team (via ARC Linkage Project) has a quick path to market and are experts in app-based mental health interventions

Capabilities and facilities

• Access to what is probably the largest depressed-speech database in the world

Our partners

• SondeHealth
• Black Dog Institute