Mumbai: BMC to start AI-based voice tests within a week to detect Covid-19

MUMBAI: The BMC will next week onwards start using a voice sampling method to diagnose Covid-19 at one of its jumbo facilities. "We will use an AI-based voice sampling application in a pilot project covering 1,000 patients, both suspected and confirmed, at our Nesco facility in Goregaon," said additional municipal commissioner Suresh Kakani on Saturday. Voice analysis was used in some European nations, including France and Italy, to detect Covid-19. In fact, a group of students from a Navi Mumbai engineering college recently'retuned' their 2008 voice analytical program to detect Covid-19 among suspected patients. "We will compare the voice analysis findings with RT-PCR results," said Kakani.