Artificial intelligence could soon diagnose illness based on the sound of your voice

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Yael Bensoussan, MD, is part of the USF Health’s department of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery. She’s leading an effort to collect voice data that can be used to diagnose illnesses. Allison Long/Allison Long

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Voices offer lots of information. Turns out, they can even help diagnose an illness — and researchers are working on an app for that.

The National Institutes of Health is funding a massive research project to collect voice data and develop an AI that could diagnose people

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