Cloudsoft, a Scottish managed services provider, supports a UK government trial a Covid-19 test that can detect COVID-19 using only voice data.
Dubbed ‘cough-in-a-box,’ the application uses artificial intelligence (AI) to diagnose Covid-19 through audio recordings of a user coughing directly into their smartphone’s microphone.
Analysing more than 70,000 recordings submitted by volunteers, which included around 2,500 from people confirmed to have Covid-19, researchers from MIT trained the AI model to correctly identify 98.5 percent of positive cases, including 100 percent of asymptomatic patients.
