Algorithms and artificial intelligence are being developed to pick out signs of illness from someone's voice. The technology may even be useful for diagnosing the current outbreak of the novel coronavirus. — Lino Mirgeler/dpa
We all know what a person's voice sounds like when they have bad cold. But would you recognise the sound of some with Parkinson's disease? What about dementia or neck cancer?
Probably not, but researchers believe algorithms and artificial intelligence will soon be able to pick out signs of illness from someone's voice.
