Collecting everyday speech data for prosodic analysis is challenging due to the confounding of prosody and semantics, privacy constraints, and participant compliance. We introduce and empirically evaluate a content-controlled, privacy-first smartphone protocol that uses scripted read-aloud sentences to standardize lexical content (including prompt valence) while capturing naturalistic variation in prosodic delivery. The protocol performs on-device prosodic feature extraction, deletes raw audio immediately, and transmits only derived features for analysis. We deployed the protocol in a large study (N = 560; 9,877 recordings), evaluated compliance and data quality, and conducted diagnostic prediction tasks on the extracted features, predicting self-reported speaker sex and momentary affective states (valence, arousal). We discuss implications and directions for advancing and deploying the protocol.
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