ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APP CAN TELL IF YOU HAVE COVID-19 BY LISTENING TO YOUR VOICE
Scientists have developed an AI-based experimental app that screens a human’s cough to detect if he or she may have COVID-19 and help with early detection of COVID-19, AI has come to the doctor’s aid.
The app is called COVID Voice Detector and is being distributed for free. Test kits are still not available in adequate quantities around the world, but to help with early detection, AI has come to the doctor’s aid.
Carnegie Mellon University researchers developed AI-based experimental app that screens a human’s cough to detect if he or she may have COVID-19 and it is called COVID Voice Detector, researchers claim it’s a collaboration between CMU researchers and voice scientists who work on “voice forensic technologies” from telling.ai, hat-ai.com, and voca.ai.
How it works?
Once you log in, there’s a tutorial for vocal prompts that includes coughing three times, while reciting the alphabet and holding out vowels for as long as you can to check your lung capacity and It takes around five minutes and in the end, you see a score within 1 to 10 telling how likely your “voice carries signatures of COVID-19”.
In this they basically match voice samples against those of known COVID-19 patients and there are options to state your demography like your age, sex, height and weight.
They do intend to improve the app as more people, both healthy and infected, take the voice-based test.
