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However, CI often remains under-recognized in nephrology care because existing diagnostic approaches are resource-intensive. Speech-based artificial intelligence (AI) is a promising approach for identifying CI through analysis of speech characteristics. This proof-of-concept study investigated whether a speech-based AI model could identify Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)-based CI and distinguish individuals receiving haemodialysis from clinically relevant controls.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Adults receiving maintenance haemodialysis and controls completed the MoCA and speech tasks. Participants were categorized into low-, moderate-, and high-risk CI groups according to MoCA scores. Acoustic, linguistic, and multimodal speech features were extracted using machine-learning models. Model performance was evaluated.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Speech-based AI differentiated individuals receiving haemodialysis from controls (n = 40). Multimodal models achieved the highest performance, with accuracies ranging from 0.78 to 0.80 for uraemia classification. For MoCA-based cognitive risk classification (n = 63), verbal fluency tasks yielded the strongest results. The best-performing model was the two-task fusion, which identified the high\u2013risk group with a weighted F1\u2013score of 73%, area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC AUC) of 79%, and Matthew\u2019s correlation coefficient (MCC) of 0.43. Moderate MoCA-based cognitive risk was more difficult to classify.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Speech\u2013based AI suggested potential as a scalable, non-invasive, and low-burden approach for identifying CI. Verbal fluency tasks and multimodal speech analysis showed the strongest classification performance. 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