Dementia vs Depression : new methods for differential diagnosis using automatic speech analysis

Depression is a very frequent pathology among elderly people. Depressive symptoms are common in neurocognitive disorders which can make it challenging to timely detect and diagnose them. Indeed, there is a high comorbidity of early‐stage dementia and late‐ life depression. There are only a few diagnostic tools that help support differential diagnosis. Speech analysis and the extraction of vocal and linguistic markers could be a non‐invasive new method to support this process.