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Partnership targets voice AI as possible COVID-19 diagnostic tool
Is it possible to diagnose COVID-19 simply by the sound of someone's voice? A consortium of researchers and businesses is guessing it just might be. Launched this past spring by voice assistant developer Voca.ai and Carnegie Mellon University, the group has gone international with the recent addition of Brazilian biometrics startup Unike Technologies. The idea of the COVID Voice Detector project is "to use a suitably trained AI to analyze the probability that someone is infected with the coronavirus based on the sound of their voice and cough. The online test asks users for some basic health information and anything they know about if they may have been exposed. The result is scored for lung health and the potential presence of COVID-19."