Article Excerpt: Researchers from Dartmouth-Hitchcock (D-H) and the University of Massachusetts Boston were recently awarded a four-year grant award totaling $1,179,714 from the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, to use Voice Assistant Systems, such as Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home, to detect early cognitive impairment. The project aims to improve early detection using voice and language to identify individuals in an early stage of cognitive impairment before they present to clinical providers as the diagnosis is often difficult and made late in the disease process.
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