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COVID app that detects virus in your voice ‘more accurate than lateral flow tests’

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SEC 123236837 3afbAccording to researchers, a mobile phone app may identify COVID in people’s speech with “possibly high accuracy” using artificial intelligence (AI).

An AI model was reported to be 89% accurate and inexpensive to operate, implying that it might be used in low-income nations where PCR tests are more expensive.

Scientists claim that the results may be obtained in less than a minute and represent a “substantial advance” in the accuracy of lateral flow studies.

Because infection generally affects the upper respiratory tract and the vocal cords, researchers decided to use an AI model to identify COVID by analyzing changes in voices.

“These promising results show that basic speech recordings and fine-tuned AI algorithms might possibly reach high precision in predicting whether patients have COVID-19 infection,” said Wafaa Aljbawi, a researcher at the Institute of Data Science at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.

The test involves users recording some respiratory sounds, such as coughing and reading a short sentence. Researchers analyzed 893 audio samples from 4,352 healthy and non-healthy people.

Users will also be required to give information about their medical history, smoking status, and demographics.

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