Voice calls combed for signs of disease

• Autores: Matt Reynolds
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3112, 2017, pág. 10
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • US start-up Canary Speech is developing deep-learning algorithms to detect if people have neurological conditions like Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease just by listening to their voice. And it has found a controversial source of data to train them on: phone calls to a health insurer. The insurer -- which Canary Speech wouldn't name but says is a very large American healthcare and insurance provider -- has provided hundreds of millions of phone calls that have been collected over 15 years and are labelled with information about each speaker's medical history and demographic background. Using this data, Canary Speech says its algorithms will pick up on vocal cues that distinguish someone with a particular condition from someone without it.