The sound of your voice might diagnose diseases

Voice could be a way to detect disease. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

Researchers are building a database of human voices that they'll use to develop AI-based tools that could eventually diagnose serious diseases; they're targeting everything from Alzheimer's to cancer. The National Institutes of Health-funded project, announced Tuesday, is an effort to turn the human voice into something that could be used as a biomarker for disease, like blood or temperature.

What's beautiful about voice data is that it's probably one of the cheapest types of data that you can collect from people," says Olivier Elemento, a professor at the Institute for Computational Biomedicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and one of the lead investigators on the project. It's a very accessible type of information you could access from...

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