Your voice may reveal if You're taking your psychiatric medication
NCT ID NCT06613334
First seen Sep 21, 2026 · Last updated Sep 21, 2026
Summary
Researchers are studying whether voice recordings can show if people with schizophrenia are taking their antipsychotic medication. About 200 participants will use a smartphone app to record speech interviews and give blood samples over six months. The goal is to see if speech patterns match drug levels in the blood, which could lead to a simple tool for monitoring treatment.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- voice analysis via a smartphone app compared with blood tests for antipsychotic levels
- What this could lead to
- If voice analysis works, doctors could use a simple app to check whether patients are taking their antipsychotic medication, helping prevent relapses without frequent blood draws.
- What could go wrong
- This is an observational study, not a treatment trial, so it cannot prove that voice monitoring improves outcomes. Speech patterns may not reliably reflect drug levels, and the approach needs validation in larger, more diverse groups.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 200 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Oct 2024
- Expected to finish
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Oct 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 to 60 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Affiliated to a social security or other social protection scheme * Diagnosed with schizophrenia according to the DSM-5 (code F20) * Stable state without duration criteria * Main treatment with risperidone or paliperidone, aripiprazole, olanzapine in oral or long-acting injectable form * Complementary treatment with an antipsychotic for anxiolytic or sedative purposes: chlorpromazine, loxapine or cyamemazine * Able to speak and read French * Able to perform speech evaluations * Able to answer questionnaires on smartphone * May be under curatorship or guardianship * Agreeing to participate in the study and with informed consent signed by the subject, as well as by the legal representative in the case of a person under curatorship or guardianship Exclusion Criteria: * Suffering from a pathology that impairs French * Suffering from a neurological pathology: multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease or neurodegenerative disease * Treatment with lithium salts * Anti-epileptic treatment * Participant in another study involving medication
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
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How to take part
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The places running it
2 sites. The list below names each one and where it is.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Groupe Hospitalo-Universitaire Paris Psychiatrie & Neurosciences
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGParis, 75014, France
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Groupe Hospitalo-Universitaire Paris Psychiatrie et Neurosciences, Paris
RECRUITINGParis, Paris, 75014, France
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