TY - JOUR T1 - The need for a harmonized speech dataset for Alzheimer's disease biomarker development AU - Bjorklund, Nicole L AU - Fillit, Howard AU - Malzbender, Kristina AU - Purushothama, Shobha AU - Kourtis, Lampros Y1 - 2020/// JO - Exploration of Medicine VL - 1 IS - 6 SP - 359 EP - 363 DO - 10.37349/emed.2020.00024 UR - https://www.explorationpub.com/Journals/em/Article/100124 AB - This commentary is the product of a concerted effort to understand the needs, barriers, and gaps in the field of speech and language biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease (AD). It distills interviews, surveys, and extensive correspondence with global leaders in the areas of dementia research, clinical trials, linguistics, and data analytics into an idealized clinical-study design for the harmonized collection of voice recordings. The ultimate goal of the effort is to democratize the ongoing speech and language analytics efforts by making such rich datasets available to the wider research ecosystem. ER -