Thanks to artificial intelligence, it will soon be possible to estimate our state of health and detect diseases by voice. Explanations.
- Detecting or monitoring the evolution of respiratory diseases (asthma, Covid-19, etc.), neurodegenerative diseases (Parkinson, Alzheimer, etc.) or even psychiatric disorders (depression, anxiety, etc.) thanks to voice analysis will soon be possible.
- Several studies are in progress. Artificial intelligence and mobile applications have great potential to improve pathology detection and remote medical monitoring.
Do a health examination and detect or follow the evolution of your disease with simple voice recordings? It will soon be possible, with artificial intelligence.
Several studies on vocal biomarkers, characteristic signatures of each disease that can be detected in the voice, are currently in progress. Scientists can now say with certainty that pathologies that affect the heart, brain, lungs, muscles or even the vocal cords cause changes in the voice.
Innovation: “we could imagine augmented teleconsultations”
Thanks to artificial intelligence, it is possible to spot some of these diseases just by identifying these vocal biomarkers. Although we are still at the beginning of the research, preliminary results have already been presented. “We have developed a first marker to identify depressive symptoms, solely from patients’ voice recordings”observes Guy Fagherazzi, director of the precision health department at the Luxembourg Health Institute, interviewed by Europe 1.
This innovation could in particular be developed via telephone applications, which would allow patients to follow the progress of their disease. A mobile application capable of detecting Covid-19 in the voice thanks to artificial intelligence has also recently been developed by the University of Cambridge. “We could also imagine increased teleconsultations”adds Guy Fagherazzi, with real-time voice analysis so that there can be instant analysis of health parameters during the conversation between the healthcare professional and the patient.”
Research: send your voice to advance science!
However, the data recovered to date is not yet sufficient. The researchers are therefore calling for as many people as possible to send them voice recordings. If you also want to participate, you can go to the site Colivevoice.org and thus contribute your little stone to scientific research. All you need is a smartphone, an internet connection and about thirty minutes to give.
