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Health insurer calls analysed for signs of disease in your voice

06-Feb-2017

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US start-up Canary Speech using deep-learning to spot neurological conditions in voices.

Training algorithms with hundreds of millions of phone calls labelled with speaker’s medical history.

Vocal cues could distinguish someone with or without a particular condition.

Stricter UK data protection laws may prevent a similar project there.

Aims to detect vocal indicators of Alzheimer’s disease within two months, then depression, stress and dyslexia.

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Canary Speech

Speech and language company specialized in the area of identifying disease and human condition through speech

Henry O’Connell

Chief Executive Officer & Founder at Canary Speech.

Max Little

Associate Professor at University of Birmingham.

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AI in Healthcare, Mental Wellbeing