The paper proposes a transparent framework that links speech acoustic features—such as pitch variability, pauses, and speech tempo—to DSM‑5 indicators of depression, offering interpretable, indicator‑level outputs instead of opaque black‑box models. It runs locally on commodity hardware to preserve privacy and has been preliminarily evaluated on the DAIC‑WOZ dataset, showing consistent associations between acoustic cues and DSM‑5 indicators of psychomotor change and concentration difficulty. Future work aims to validate the approach on longitudinal data and expand multimodal integration while keeping edge constraints.
By Jonas L\"anzlinger, Katharina O. E. M\"uller, Burkhard Stiller, Bruno Rodrigues
arXiv:2606. 05561v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speech-based mental health screening offers scalable depression detection, yet clinical deployment faces a significant barrier: users' privacy concerns about demographic information exposure.
By Xueyang Wu, Siyuan Liu, Kezhuo Yang, Guang Ling
The study investigates how a large language model, Gemma-3-27B-PT, internally represents depressive symptoms. By applying mechanistic interpretability methods to the model’s residual stream, researchers found that symptom groups are geometrically distinct at layer 21, and that projected symptom vectors align with clinician-annotated rankings across mood, somatic, and suicidality dimensions. Additionally, a single depression vector at this layer can differentiate depressive from non-depressive text with an AUC of 0.789, suggesting a potential emotional valence gate for symptom projection.
By Fangyi Zhu, Ajay Subramanian, Allison Constant, Camille Wang, Ravish Gupta, Corey J. Keller
arXiv:2607. 03744v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic depression detection from clinical interviews typically models the semantic content and acoustic characteristics of participant speech.
By Hanie Kang, Huang-Cheng Chou, Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri, Shrikanth Narayanan
arXiv:2607. 00986v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatically detecting stress in speech provides an unobtrusive way to gain insights relevant to behavioral research or clinical assessment.
By Hanna Drimalla, Wieland R. Cremer, Christine Kraus, Oliver T. Wolf
arXiv:2607. 22794v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automatic depression detection with deep learning has shown promise but often suffers from limited generalization due to domain shift arising from inter-speaker variability.
By Ali Tabaraei, Federico Simonetta, Stavros Ntalampiras