CBT-Audio: Evaluating Audio Language Models for Patient-Side Distress Intensity Estimation in CBT Session Recordings

ArXi:2605.17370v2 Announce Type: replace Cognitive behavioural therapy is widely used to help patients understand and manage psychological distress. It is often delivered through spoken conversation, where therapists attend not only to what patients say, but also to how they say it, because these cues can help therapists decide how to respond and adapt treatment. Progress in building AI systems for CBT remains largely limited to text, partly because most available datasets are text based and shareable spoken CBT data are scarce under ethical and privacy constraints.