Alexa, Cortana And Siri Are About To Diagnose Your Health

Amazon Echo, Google Home, Siri and the myriad of other "assistants" that are out there are slowly but surely getting smarter and could, one day, be your doctor if researchers from New York University's Langone Medical Center have their way. According to new research, short voice clips can be used to diagnose a variety of diseases and conditions which means we just might be saving lives and catching diseases way sooner than we are currently. Prevention usually means big money saved and that interests a lot of different parties from billion dollar industries like pharma, fitness, government services and NGOs. Using complex algorithms and machine learning the researchers hope to find vocal patterns that might signal illness and more complex disorders via a five-year study. Researchers at New York University's Langone Medical Center believe post-traumatic stress disorder and even heart disease could be detected in a few years rather than decades.