The population is aging, and becoming more tech-savvy. The United Nations predicts that by 2050, one in six people in the world will be over age 65 (up from one in 11 in 2019), and this increases to one in four in Europe and Northern America. Meanwhile, the proportion of American adults over 65 who own a smartphone has risen 24 percentage points from 2013-2017, and the majority have Internet in their homes. Smart devices and smart home technology have profound potential to transform how people age, their ability to live independently in later years, and their interactions with their circle of care. Cognitive health is a key component to independence and well-being in old age, and smart homes present many opportunities to measure cognitive status in a continuous, unobtrusive manner. In this article, we focus on speech as a measurement instrument for cognitive health. Existing methods of cognitive assessment suffer from a number of limitations that could be addressed through smart home speech sensing technologies. We begin with a brief tutorial on measuring cognitive status from speech, including some pointers to useful open-source software toolboxes for the interested reader. We then present an overview of the preliminary results from pilot studies on active and passive smart home speech sensing for the measurement of cognitive health, and conclude with some recommendations and challenge statements for the next wave of work in this area, to help overcome both technical and ethical barriers to success.
翻译:联合国预测,到2050年,全世界六分之一的人将超过65岁(2019年11中1人,2019年11人,2019年11人),而欧洲和北美将增至四分之一。与此同时,65岁以上拥有智能手机的美国成年人比例在2013-2017年上升了24个百分点,大多数人在家中拥有互联网。智能设备和智能家庭技术在改变人们的年龄、晚年独立生活的能力及其与护理圈的互动方面有着巨大潜力。认知健康是老年人独立和福祉的一个关键组成部分,智能家庭提供了以持续、不留意的方式衡量认知状况的许多机会。在文章中,我们侧重于作为认知健康衡量工具的演讲。现有的认知评估方法受到许多限制,可以通过智能家庭语音感测技术加以解决。我们首先简单介绍如何从言论中衡量认知状况,包括一些指向有用的开放源软件工具箱,对于感兴趣的读者来说,认知健康是独立和福祉的一个关键组成部分,而智能家庭则提供了许多机会,以持续、不留意的方式衡量认知状况的机会。在本篇文章中,我们从初步的实验性测试和动态测试中总结了一些对家庭健康挑战的测试结果,然后,然后总结了一些关于系统测试,然后总结了一些初步的系统测试,然后总结了一些关于家庭测试,然后总结了一些初步的系统测试,然后总结了一些关于系统测试,然后总结了一些关于家庭健康测试和成功的测试,然后总结了一些测试,然后总结了一些测试,然后总结了一些测试性诊断性健康方面的初步结论式式式的测试,然后总结了一些测试,然后总结工作方面的初步测试,然后总结了一些初步结论式的测试,然后总结了一些测试,然后总结了一些测试性的工作。