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ReviewSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2025

The Human Voice as a Digital Health Solution Leveraging Artificial Intelligence.

Pratyusha Muddaloor, Bhavana Baraskar, Hriday Shah, Keerthy Gopalakrishnan, Divyanshi Sood, Prem C Pasupuleti, Akshay Singh, Dipankar Mitra, Sumedh S Hoskote, Vivek N Iyer and 2 more

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Review in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Pratyusha MuddaloorDepartment of Internal Medicine, Lower Bucks Hospital, Bristol, PA 19007, USA.
Bhavana BaraskarDepartment of Internal Medicine, Mary Washington Healthcare, Fredericksburg, VA 22401, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8267-1523
Hriday ShahDepartment of Medicine, New York Medical College, St. Marys General Hospital & Saint Clare's Health, Denville, NJ 07834, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3031-3054
Keerthy GopalakrishnanDepartment of Internal Medicine, The Wright Center, Scranton, PA 18505, USA.
Divyanshi SoodUC Health Parkview Medical Center, Pueblo, CO 81003, USA.
Prem C PasupuletiDepartment of Information Technology, Amity University, Noida 201301, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Akshay SinghCollege of Computing, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616, USA.
Dipankar MitraDepartment of Computer Science & Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse, WI 54601, USA.
Sumedh S HoskoteDivision of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0512-2600
Vivek N IyerDivision of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6441-9319
Scott A HelgesonDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7590-2293
Shivaram P ArunachalamDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3251-5415

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The human voice is an important medium of communication and expression of feelings or thoughts. Disruption in the regulatory systems of the human voice can be analyzed and used as a diagnostic tool, labeling voice as a potential "biomarker". Conversational artificial intelligence is at the core of voice-powered technologies, enabling intelligent interactions between machines. Due to its richness and availability, voice can be leveraged for predictive analytics and enhanced healthcare insights. Utilizing this idea, we reviewed artificial intelligence (AI) models that have executed vocal analysis and their outcomes. Recordings undergo extraction of useful vocal features to be analyzed by neural networks and machine learning models. Studies reveal machine learning models to be superior to spectral analysis in dynamically combining the huge amount of data of vocal features. Clinical applications of a vocal biomarker exist in neurological diseases such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, psychological disorders, DM, CHF, CAD, aspiration, GERD, and pulmonary diseases, including COVID-19. The primary ethical challenge when incorporating voice as a diagnostic tool is that of privacy and security. To eliminate this, encryption methods exist to convert patient-identifiable vocal data into a more secure, private nature. Advancements in AI have expanded the capabilities and future potential of voice as a digital health solution.

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Artificial IntelligenceVoiceCOVID-19Digital HealthHumansMachine LearningNeural Networks, ComputerSARS-CoV-2artificial intelligencevocal biomarkervocal featuresvoicevoice analysis

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PMID40968958
PMCPMC12158129

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