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I n the individuals with the major depressive disorder, a neurophysiological change that emphasizes the actions, feelings, and thoughts associated with bodily events such as the firing of nerve cells in the brain or the release of hormones often alter motor control. Thus, this affects the mechanisms of controlling speech production and facial expression. These fluctuations are related to psychomotor retardation, a condition marked by slowed neuromotor output that is behaviorally manifested as altered coordination and timing across multiple motor-based properties. Vocal-biomarkers is a technique that enables machines to understand human emotions by analyzing, recording and detecting raw voice intonations as people speak. Biomarkers in the voice of a person have been linked to disorders such as depression,