Global Research Integration Platform (GRIP): Open‐source Digital Voice Processing Toolkit
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Abstract
Abstract Background Producing speech is a cognitively complex task and can be collected through devices such as handheld recorders, tablets, and smartphones. Digital voice data can also capture information at a granular millisecond‐level precision and serve as a widespread tool to collect cognitively relevant data in almost any diverse real‐world environments. Digital voice recordings of spoken responses to neuropsychological test questions have been collected through the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) since 2005. The methods to analyze voice recordings were initially labor and time‐intensive approaches that were significant barriers to fully realizing the scientific objective of using speech and language as an alternative approach to cognitive assessment. Methods Through a collaboration with the Global Research Integration Platform (GRIP) and FHS, we leveraged existing open–source tools to create a digital voice processing toolkit that can be used by the general scientific community. GRIP is modularizing this toolkit to allow for seamless integration into various sites worldwide with low‐to‐high levels of technical experience. Table 1 lists the initial open‐source tools we tested on 9,253 audio recordings collected on 5,399 FHS participants. Each open‐source tool has a Python Github repository that we leveraged. Results With minimal manual intervention, we generated prosodic, spectral, cepstral, and sound quality features from the ComParE‐2016 feature set via openSMILE. We produced 65 LLDs (low‐level descriptors) every 10 milliseconds over a 60‐millisecond window and 6373 features generated by applying several statistical functionals to the LLDs. We segmented speakers via pyannote.audio and analyzed 9 acoustic and linguistic PRAAT features and 6373 openSMILE features in the context of a cognitive status classification task. Via Whisper, we generated timestamped transcriptions from both FHS and additional U.S. and international cohorts. We have noted difficulties in language detection and decreased transcription performance for non‐English speakers and English speakers with accents. We have used these data in numerous studies relating digital voice to AD related outcomes. Conclusion Digital voice is a prime candidate for scalable collection of cognitively relevant information. The modularized toolkit being developed will provide scaled non‐proprietary post‐processing of digital voice data that can be seamlessly integrated by users worldwide with low‐to‐high levels of technical experience.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.019 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.057 | 0.042 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".