Winterlight™ speech assessment for academic research
Bring speech analysis into your research
Winterlight™ speech assessment is now available through CANTAB Connect Research, making it easier to explore what speech can reveal about cognitive function and neuropsychiatric symptoms.
Choose from three speech tasks and combine them with CANTAB® touchscreen assessments, questionnaires and scales within a single study.
Picture Description (PDT)
Participants describe an image in their own words, providing a spontaneous speech sample to explore language use, fluency and the organisation of information.
Journaling (JOT)
Participants talk about personal experiences, thoughts or activities, providing connected speech that captures their choice of words and how they express ideas.
Paragraph Reading and Recall (PRT)
Participants read a paragraph aloud and recall its content, providing speech samples from both a structured reading task and their own recollection.
One speech sample. Hundreds of measures.
From speech rate and pauses to vocabulary and sentence structure, Winterlight analyses both how people speak and the language they use. These acoustic and linguistic features provide rich, quantifiable research data with limited additional participant burden, offering a complementary perspective on cognitive performance.
