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preprint2026arXiv

PROCESS-2: A Benchmark Speech Corpus for Early Cognitive Impairment Detection

Speech-based analysis offers a scalable and non-invasive approach for detecting cognitive decline, yet progress has been constrained by the limited availability of clinically validated datasets collected under realistic conditions. We introduce PROCESS-2, a large-scale speech dataset designed to support research on automatic assessment of cognitive impairment from spontaneous and task-oriented speech. The dataset comprises recordings from 200 healthy controls, 150 mild cognitive impairment, and 50 dementia diagnoses collected using the CognoMemory digital assessment platform. Each participant completed a single assessment session, including picture description and verbal fluency tasks, accompanied by manually verified transcripts and participant-level metadata. PROCESS-2 contains approximately 21 hours of speech audio with predefined train/test partitions. Comprehensive technical validation evaluated demographic balance, clinical consistency, recording stability, embedding-space structure, and reproducible baseline modelling performance, demonstrating clinically meaningful group separation and stable performance across modelling approaches while preserving real-world conversational variability. PROCESS-2 is released under controlled access via Hugging Face to enable responsible reuse while protecting participant privacy, providing a reproducible benchmark resource for speech-based cognitive assessment research.

preprint2022arXiv

Automatic Detection of Expressed Emotion from Five-Minute Speech Samples: Challenges and Opportunities

We present a novel feasibility study on the automatic recognition of Expressed Emotion (EE), a family environment concept based on caregivers speaking freely about their relative/family member. We describe an automated approach for determining the \textit{degree of warmth}, a key component of EE, from acoustic and text features acquired from a sample of 37 recorded interviews. These recordings, collected over 20 years ago, are derived from a nationally representative birth cohort of 2,232 British twin children and were manually coded for EE. We outline the core steps of extracting usable information from recordings with highly variable audio quality and assess the efficacy of four machine learning approaches trained with different combinations of acoustic and text features. Despite the challenges of working with this legacy data, we demonstrated that the degree of warmth can be predicted with an $F_{1}$-score of \textbf{61.5\%}. In this paper, we summarise our learning and provide recommendations for future work using real-world speech samples.

preprint2020arXiv

Data augmentation using generative networks to identify dementia

Data limitation is one of the most common issues in training machine learning classifiers for medical applications. Due to ethical concerns and data privacy, the number of people that can be recruited to such experiments is generally smaller than the number of participants contributing to non-healthcare datasets. Recent research showed that generative models can be used as an effective approach for data augmentation, which can ultimately help to train more robust classifiers sparse data domains. A number of studies proved that this data augmentation technique works for image and audio data sets. In this paper, we investigate the application of a similar approach to different types of speech and audio-based features extracted from interactions recorded with our automatic dementia detection system. Using two generative models we show how the generated synthesized samples can improve the performance of a DNN based classifier. The variational autoencoder increased the F-score of a four-way classifier distinguishing the typical patient groups seen in memory clinics from 58% to around 74%, a 16% improvement