Researchers at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute (Toronto) and partner universities found that subtle speech characteristics in everyday speech— pauses, filler words like "um"," and "uh"," difficulty retrieving words—predict co
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Your “um” and pauses could reveal early dementia risk
100+ AI speech features analyzed
73% % Prediction accuracy
Established Executive Function Tests Cognitive tests used for validation
Pause Timing, Filler Words, Word Retrieval Speech feature categories