TAMPA, Fla. – The University of South Florida is now one of four universities offering a course that uses artificial intelligence and a person’s voice to identify certain health conditions.
The new AI voice summer course is part of a broader program called Bridge2AI using the technology to study health markers through a patient’s voice. Doctors said the technology could ultimately help catch and potentially even prevent certain diseases.
“Laryngeal cancers, vocal cord paralysis, to Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, even other types of respiratory diseases,” said Dr. Yael Bensoussan, a USF assistant professor and the principal investigator on Bridge2AI Voice.
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Bensoussan said they are working to build a database of 10,000 voices from patients with different types of illnesses.
“And we link it to their health information for artificial intelligence models to be able to learn from this information,” …