System of early detection of breathing problems through sound analysis – joint work of specialists of the clinical hospital of the faculty of medicine of the University of the state of são Paulo, Institute of mathematics and statistics at the same institution.
the idea to develop a new kind of remote diagnostics COVID-19 researchers pushed the idea that the symptom of the disease, when respiratory failure may be characteristic changes in a manner of speaking.
“the Idea is to recognize the person talking on the phone or in front of a computer monitor, for example, of respiratory disorders, which would speak about the urgent need to go to the doctor and get tested,” – said lecturer at the Institute of mathematics and statistics University of são Paulo Marcelo Finger. His words quoted by the news Agency Fund supporting research of state of são Paulo, under whose auspices a system of Spira.
the researchers recorded the speech samples of coronavirus from patients undergoing treatment at the clinical hospital at the University. They were asked to read the phrase “Love of neighbor helps to repel the coronavirus with the desired force.” These samples are the employees of the Institute with the help of artificial intellect will compare the speech of healthy people to identify possible differences in the manner of production, the number and duration of pauses, the pronunciation of this phrase, and the likely presence of additional breaths.
Brazil is a big country with enormous linguistic diversity. Here each region has its own unique dialect. Spira will be trained using the entire audioarchive available to the University. This wealth is collected by linguists in são Paulo for the past five decades.
Such studies in Brazil is very relevant. According to the Ministry of health of the country on June 22, the last day here identified 21.4 thousand new cases COVID-19, 654 people died. Only in Brazil coronavirus detected in 1.1 million people, 572 thousand of them have already recovered, 51 thousand – died. Throughout the pandemic, local experts and heads of the Ministry of health admitted that the real numbers are five to seven times higher than official statistics.
against this background, many Brazilian States began to weaken quarantine measures, which was not quite true interpreted by the Brazilians. So, last weekend, residents of Rio de Janeiro and coastal areas of the state of são Paulo reached for the beaches. Sunday types Copacabana is almost indistinguishable from what happened here four months ago, before the arrival of coronavirus.
