arxivcs.SDcs.AI2026-07-11
Transcript-Free Lightweight Detection of Alzheimer's Disease from Spontaneous Speech Using Handcrafted MFCC-Dominant Acoustic Biomarkers
Rashin Gholijani Farahani, Azam Bastanfard
It is still hard to find Alzheimer's disease (AD) early, especially when neuroimaging is expensive or tools that depend on language are not available. Spontaneous speech provides a non-invasive signal; however, numerous current methodologies depend on transcripts/ASR or computati…