Vocalis Health: Technology of diagnosing of COVID-19 for a voice

2020: Announcement of development of technology of diagnosing of COVID-19 for a voice

On April 6, 2020 the Vocalis Health company reported that it developed technology of diagnosing of a disease of COVID-19 coronavirus on the basis of the analysis of a range of a voice. For April, 2020 in Israel the procedure of record of voices of patients with the revealed diagnosis a koronavirusny infection began. Technologies are the cornerstone the patented developments of Beyond Verbal, recognition and processing of voice data in medicine using artificial intelligence technologies (AI).

According to the company, from 2012 Beyond Verbal worked on a system which distinguishes signs of anger, alarm, excitation and many other emotions, analyzing a voice of the person. Its specialization are the diseases connected with mental human health. Inquired in developments of Beyond Verbal in Amazon to improve the current voice assistant. One of Beyond Verbal developers – institute of studying of a brain in Israel.

The Vocalis health consolidated company considers that, analyzing a voice outside what can hear a human ear, the company can open special vocal biomarkers which will allow medical community to gain an impression about symptoms and about presence of COVID-19 virus.

For April, 2020 all forces of Vocalis Health are thrown on debugging of technology of diagnosing of COVID-19. The company applies the patented solutions in the field of voice analytics to search of the solution capable to distinguish voices of healthy people from infected. The artificial intelligence is for this purpose used. Kenes Rakishev, the investor of Beyond Verbal told

The Beyond Verbal company (part of Vocalis health) in which investments were made by Kenes Rakishev is known for several patents for processing and the analysis of a voice, in particular it can define and modulate the emotions which are the cornerstone of the speech.

The algorithm Vocalis Health using the artificial intelligence (AI) determines the patient's status according to voice markers by different diseases (respiratory, cardiological or the diseases connected with behavioural frustration, such as depression).

The Ministry of Defence of Israel supported development of Vocalis Health. Among measures for fight against a coronavirus by request of the Ministry of Defence of Israel the Vocalis Health company is engaged in creation of mobile application which on the same algorithm will reveal coronavirus symptoms (the virus is too a respiratory disease which affects the respiratory system of the person, affecting breath and a voice).

The Ministry of Defence of the country noted that the algorithm will be used for remote diagnostics and monitoring to prevent spread of a disease and an overload of a national health care system. Thus, according to developers, it will be possible to define who should be tested first of all who needs immediate hospitalization and what patients can stay at home, symptoms are lungs.

Meanwhile the platform is available only to medics and patients who participate in a research that the algorithm learned to distinguish infection symptoms. Collecting of recorded voices of patients for training of a system of artificial intelligence of voices began with COVID-19 at the end of March, 2020. On the website of the company everyone can send to developers the recorded voice for a research.