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ArticleNPJ digital medicine2026

Scalable depression monitoring with smartphone speech using a multimodal benchmark and topic analysis.

Daniel Emden, Maike Richter, Astrid Chevance, Ramona Leenings, Julian Herpertz, Lara Gutfleisch, Anna Fleuchaus, Rogério Blitz, Vincent L Holstein, Janik Goltermann and 18 more

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Article in NPJ digital medicine, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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28 authors.

Daniel EmdenInstitute for Translational Psychiatry, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
Maike RichterDepartment of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Astrid ChevanceUniversité Paris Cité and Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, INSERM INRAE, Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Statistics, Paris, France.
Ramona LeeningsDepartment of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Julian HerpertzDepartment of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Lara GutfleischDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany.
Anna FleuchausDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany.
Rogério BlitzDepartment of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Vincent L HolsteinInstitute for Translational Psychiatry, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
Janik GoltermannInstitute for Translational Psychiatry, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
Nils R WinterInstitute for Translational Psychiatry, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
Jennifer SpanagelInstitute for Translational Psychiatry, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
Susanne MeinertInstitute for Translational Psychiatry, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
Tiana BorgersInstitute for Translational Psychiatry, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
Kira FlinkenflügelInstitute for Translational Psychiatry, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
Frederike SteinDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps-University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
Nina AlexanderDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps-University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
Hamidreza JamalabadiDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps-University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
Jonathan ReppleInstitute for Translational Psychiatry, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
Christian DobelDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Institute of Phoniatry and Pedaudiology, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany.
Elisabeth J LeehrInstitute for Translational Psychiatry, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
Ronny RedlichInstitute for Translational Psychiatry, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
Ulrich W Ebner-PriemerMental mHealth Lab, Institute of Sports and Sports Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Igor NenadićDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps-University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
Tilo KircherDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps-University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
Udo DannlowskiInstitute for Translational Psychiatry, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
Tim HahnInstitute for Translational Psychiatry, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
Nils OpelDepartment of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany. nils.opel@charite.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4749-3298

Funding

German Research Foundation (DFG) FOR 2107 and SFB/TRR 393 521379614LOEWE program of the Hessian Ministry of Science and Arts LOEWE1/16/519/03/09.001(0009)/98
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Objective, scalable biomarkers are needed for continuous monitoring of major depressive disorder. Smartphone-collected speech is promising, yet clinically useful signals remain elusive. We analyzed 3151 weekly voice diaries from 284 German-speaking adults (128 MDD, 156 controls) to predict Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) scores. Sentence-embedding models outperformed lexical and acoustic baselines: Qwen3-8B achieved MAE 4.65 and R

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PMCPMC12996298

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