Your voice may reveal if You're taking your psychiatric medication

NCT ID NCT06613334

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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

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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

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Phase

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

About 200 people

The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.

Started

Oct 2024

Expected to finish

Oct 2027

An estimate. End dates often move.

Lead sponsor

Other sponsor

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Who can take part

This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.

Ages

18 to 60 years

Sex

Anyone

Healthy volunteers

Not accepted

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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

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Contacts and locations

Locations

  • Groupe Hospitalo-Universitaire Paris Psychiatrie & Neurosciences

    NOT_YET_RECRUITING

    Paris, 75014, France

  • Groupe Hospitalo-Universitaire Paris Psychiatrie et Neurosciences, Paris

    RECRUITING

    Paris, Paris, 75014, France

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