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Record W4411716965 · doi:10.2196/64357

Optimizing Voice Sample Quantity and Recording Settings for the Prediction of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Retrospective Study

2025· article· en· W4411716965 on OpenAlex
Atousa Assadi, Jessica Oreskovic, Jaycee Kaufman, Yan Fossat

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.

Bibliographic record

VenueJMIR Biomedical Engineering · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicVoice and Speech Disorders
Canadian institutionsHolland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineAudiologyType 2 Diabetes MellitusCorrelationLinear regressionSample size determinationRegression analysisDiabetes mellitusSpeech recognitionComputer scienceStatisticsMathematics

Abstract

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Background: The use of acoustic biomarkers derived from speech signals is a promising non-invasive technique for diagnosing type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Despite its potential, there remains a critical gap in knowledge regarding the optimal number of voice recordings and recording schedule necessary to achieve effective diagnostic accuracy. Objective: This study aimed to determine the optimal number of voice samples and the ideal recording schedule (frequency and timing), required to maintain the T2DM diagnostic efficacy while reducing patient burden. Methods: We analyzed voice recordings from 78 adults (22 women), including 39 individuals diagnosed with T2DM. Participants had a mean (SD) age of 45.26 (10.63) years and mean (SD) BMI of 28.07 (4.59) kg/m². In total, 5035 voice recordings were collected, with a mean (SD) of 4.91 (1.45) recordings per day; higher adherence was observed among women (5.13 [1.38] vs 4.82 [1.46] in men). We evaluated the diagnostic accuracy of a previously developed voice-based model under different recording conditions. Segmented linear regression analysis was used to assess model accuracy across varying numbers of voice recordings, and the Kendall tau correlation was used to measure the relationship between recording settings and accuracy. A significance threshold of P<.05 was applied. Results: Our results showed that including up to 6 voice recordings notably improved the model accuracy for T2DM compared to using only one recording, with accuracy increasing from 59.61 to 65.02 for men and from 65.55 to 69.43 for women. Additionally, the day on which voice recordings were collected did not significantly affect model accuracy (P>.05). However, adhering to recording within a single day demonstrated higher accuracy, with accuracy of 73.95% for women and 85.48% for men when all recordings were from the first and second days. Conclusions: This study underscores the optimal voice recording settings to reduce patient burden while maintaining diagnostic efficacy.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.407
Threshold uncertainty score0.326

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.274
Teacher spread0.262 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it