Can voice predict or diagnose diseases?

Covid-19 Application to detect symptoms

Voice Analysis Tech Could Diagnose DiseaseMIT Technology Review

Covid-19 Sounds App - University of Cambridgececim

Flow to detect covid-19 by audio

Christian Poellabauer

It won’t be easy to make vocal diagnostics clinically useful, cautioned Christian Poellabauer, a computer scientist at the University of Notre Dame who studies biomarkers for neurological conditions. It can be very difficult to isolate the real cause of changes in speech patterns, he said. Recordings must be of high quality to be useful, and that can be costly. And you need lots of data to ensure that correlations are reliable.

The Sound of Your Voice May Diagnose DiseaseScientific American

Arthur Caplan

“If you take this app and it says you’re slurring your speech and having a stroke, that could be useful. You go to the hospital immediately. On the other hand, if it says there’s a 38 percent chance you’re going to have a migraine in the next week, I’m not sure that’s so helpful to you. You probably knew that anyway,” said medical ethicist Arthur Caplan of New York University.

Diagnosis From The Sound Of A Patient’s Voice

There is a growing amount of evidence suggesting that many physical and mental conditions may alter the sound of a person’s voice. For example, by speaking in a more nasal tone, elongating sounds, slurring words or even sounds that are not detectable to the human ear such as jitters or a creak in the voice.

Patient's Voice Might Be Beneficial for Diseases DetectionStrammer