{"id":217663,"date":"2021-04-02T11:18:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T08:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/this-ai-powered-app-detects-covid-19-using-just-your-voice-with-80-accuracy\/"},"modified":"2021-04-02T11:18:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T08:18:45","slug":"this-ai-powered-app-detects-covid-19-using-just-your-voice-with-80-accuracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/this-ai-powered-app-detects-covid-19-using-just-your-voice-with-80-accuracy\/","title":{"rendered":"#This AI-powered app detects COVID-19 using just your voice with 80% accuracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2c99cf37d07\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2c99cf37d07\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/this-ai-powered-app-detects-covid-19-using-just-your-voice-with-80-accuracy\/#What_problem_is_it_solving\" >What problem is it solving?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/this-ai-powered-app-detects-covid-19-using-just-your-voice-with-80-accuracy\/#Wheres_the_AI\" >Where\u2019s the AI?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/this-ai-powered-app-detects-covid-19-using-just-your-voice-with-80-accuracy\/#How_was_it_trained\" >How was it trained?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/this-ai-powered-app-detects-covid-19-using-just-your-voice-with-80-accuracy\/#Lets_talk_about_some_stats\" >Let\u2019s talk about some stats<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/this-ai-powered-app-detects-covid-19-using-just-your-voice-with-80-accuracy\/#Whats_next\" >What\u2019s next?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#This AI-powered <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a> detects COVID-19 using just your voice with 80% accuracy<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n                                <span>Detecting COVID-19 is not easy, because the symptoms it causes vary greatly from one person to the next. If you have some symptoms such as a sore throat, fever, cough, or loss of smell or taste, you\u2019ll know that you need to get yourself checked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why companies like <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/vocalishealth.com\/\">Vocalis<\/a> are developing solutions to pre-screen people using simple technologies such as voice and\u00a0<span>mobile apps to predict if someone has COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_problem_is_it_solving\"><\/span>What problem is it solving?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Screening folks for coronavirus or any other disease is difficult unless you go to a test center in person. So Vocalis has developed an AI that identifies voice characteristics of patients having various diseases\u00a0<span>without needing to visit a hospital or stressing their local healthcare systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Plus, screening methods such as temperature guns can\u2019t detect asymptotic patients. Vocalis\u2019 solution could help in those situations.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Read: New AI tool can diagnose COVID-19 just by the sound of your coughs]<\/em><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Wheres_the_AI\"><\/span>Where\u2019s the AI?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Vocalis collects a lot of data related to a person\u2019s voice. It has developed a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> that identifies characteristics of a potential disease based on the analysis of voice collected from a person.<\/p>\n<p>The firm\u2019s algorithm extracts 512 features from a voice sample and makes an image \u2014 a spectrogram \u2014\u00a0<span>with which it can diagnose possible diseases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When the company aims to help detect a specific disease, it first holds clinical trials to recognize what kind of voice recordings it would need to collect to identify it, and what signatures in the audio it will need to pinpoint.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For instance, to detect COVID-19 the AI needs to identify characteristics of symptoms such as fever, headache, and shortness of breath.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-featured_img wp-image-1345229 lazy\" alt=\"\" width=\"796\" height=\"463\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 796px) 100vw, 796px\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/04\/Screenshot-2021-04-02-at-12.28.06-PM-796x463.png\" data-lazy=\"true\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/04\/Screenshot-2021-04-02-at-12.28.06-PM-796x463.png 796w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/04\/Screenshot-2021-04-02-at-12.28.06-PM-280x163.png 280w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/04\/Screenshot-2021-04-02-at-12.28.06-PM-464x270.png 464w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/04\/Screenshot-2021-04-02-at-12.28.06-PM-232x135.png 232w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/04\/Screenshot-2021-04-02-at-12.28.06-PM.png 870w\"\/><figcaption><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/neural\/2021\/04\/02\/this-ai-powered-app-detects-covid-19-using-just-your-voice-with-80-accuracy\/#\" data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthenextweb.com%2Fneural%2F2021%2F04%2F02%2Fthis-ai-powered-app-detects-covid-19-using-just-your-voice-with-80-accuracy%2F&amp;via=thenextweb&amp;related=thenextweb&amp;text=Check out this picture on: How the Vocalis AI works\" data-title=\"Share How the Vocalis AI works on Twitter\" data-width=\"685\" data-height=\"500\" class=\"post-image-share popitup\" title=\"Share How the Vocalis AI works on Twitter\"><i class=\"icon icon--inline icon--twitter--dark\"\/><\/a>How the Vocalis AI works<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_was_it_trained\"><\/span>How was it trained?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Vocalis has made sure that the AI is language agnostic. It asks patients to count from 50 to 70 to train the algorithm. Dr. Shady Hasan, the co-founder of Vocalis, said that this is to preserve a patient\u2019s privacy and not to give away anything about their identity.<\/p>\n<p>He added that this also aids them to maintain consistency of samples as compared to a dataset with spoken phrases. In turn, this helps the firm identify vocal biomarkers related to a specific disease easily.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vocalis Track Explainer Video\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SWwkRVzANss?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s pre-training dataset includes over 275,000 different speakers in various languages to make it universally accessible.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Lets_talk_about_some_stats\"><\/span>Let\u2019s talk about some stats<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In February, Vocalis \u2014 an Israel -based company founded in 2019 \u2014entered a joint study with the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai in India that tested 2,000 participants.<\/p>\n<p>They spoke multiple languages, including English, Hindi, Marathi, and Gujarati. It installed its VocalisCheck tools on smartphones to gauge the efficiency of algorithms. At the end of this project, researchers found that the algorithm was 81.2% accurate in detecting COVID-19 \u2014 a lot of them being asymptomatic patients.<\/p>\n<p>Vocalis\u2019 tools are currently deployed in the US, Chile, Indonesia, South Africa, Romania, and Luxembourg in the public and private sectors.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Whats_next\"><\/span>What\u2019s next?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>For the next steps, the firm wants to acquire more datasets to make its COVID-19 detection more robust and accurate. Plus, it\u2019s looking to commercialize the solution and make it available for more regions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-post-pubDate\">\n                                    Published April 2, 2021 \u2014 08:18 UTC\n                                <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script data-src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;appId=378011798897423&amp;version=v2.6\" id=\"socialSrcFacebook\" type=\"text\/template\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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