Inviting the Big Brother Telescreen into our Homes

[The Lawspeaker]

[Ülev]

Researchers enlist smartphones and machine learning to find vocal patterns that might signal post-traumatic stress disorder or even heart disease.
“Medical and psychiatric diagnosis will be more accurate when we have access to large amounts of biological and psychological data, including speech features,” Marmar says. To date, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has not approved any speech tests to diagnose disease.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/6...gnose-disease/

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Critics have also raised privacy concerns, suggesting that voice analysis technology might become so sophisticated that patients could be identified by their cadence and tone, even if their names weren’t attached to the speech sample.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...gnose-disease/
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so please more "vocaroo" on TA