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New MIT app detects coronavirus by listening to your cough – Telegraph.co.uk
The AI system was able to correctly identify whether people had coronavirus 98.5pc of the time
Researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) system which they claim can detect coronavirus by analysing the sound of people coughing.
Scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) said the AI works because the virus causes temporary muscular impairment which can cause small differences to peoples speech or the sound of their cough even if they have no other symptoms.
Tests performed on 4,000 recordings of people forcing themselves to cough showed that the system was…
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