A research instrument for speech and cognition studies

Cognitive change is continuous. Measurement should be too.

CocoMind captures natural, unprompted speech in the home, every day for months, and turns it into a dense longitudinal record of cognition.

Discuss a study

An administered test yields two or three observations a year, each carrying whatever kind of day the participant was having. At that density, early change and a bad morning look the same. Daily sampling separates them: instead of points, you get the curve.

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Six months: daily in-home sampling (line) vs clinic visits (dots).
Illustration of a participant in conversation at home

Participants come back because the device feels personal rather than clinical: it converses, it remembers, and it asks for nothing beyond a few minutes of talk.

Friction

No travel, no appointments. Push-to-talk, on demand, at home. The friction that erodes clinic retention is gone.

Aversion

Conversation is not a test. There is nothing to fail and no test anxiety; the measurement sits inside ordinary talk.

Memory

The agent recalls past sessions and personalizes, carrying some of the relational pull that brings people back.

Activation
Push-to-talk only.

No ambient listening, no wake word. Recording starts only when the participant starts it.

Security
Encrypted throughout.

In transit and at rest. HIPAA-aligned processing under signed BAAs, zero-data-retention configurations.

Delivery
Your systems, your data.

Structured measures into the platform you choose, REDCap included. Audio stays under your institution's control.

Field status
Already in the field.

In use in an IRB-reviewed feasibility study with an academic medical center.

Illustration representing privacy and data custody

Bring the instrument to your study.

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Feasibility conversation
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IRB and governance support
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Devices ship pre-provisioned
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Data into your systems
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Prepaid device return
We handle
The instrument, end to end.

Provisioning, shipping, and device support. The data pipeline into your REDCap. An IRB package refined through review at a major academic medical center, including security and AI-governance intake.

Your team owns
The participants, and the science.

Recruitment, consent, onboarding, and the participant relationship. We make that job easier, not replaceable. Your investigators lead the analyses and the publications.

Terms
In-kind, for now.

Devices and platform provided in-kind for feasibility collaborations. Authorship follows ICMJE conventions.