Dr. Poppy Crum

I started a word again, right?

And it's what we might call a stutter in how we're speaking, sometimes duration of spaces between starting one sentence to the next.

These are things that, as humans, we've adapted to not pick up on because it makes us ineffective in communication, but an algorithm can do so very well.

Diabetes, heart disease, both show up in voice.

Diabetes shows up because you can pick up on dehydration in the voice.

Again, I'm a sound person in my heart and my past.

And if you look at the spectrum of sound, you're going to see changes that show up.

There are very consistent things in a voice that show up with dehydration in the spectral environment.

you know, salience, as well as with heart disease, you get sort of flutter that shows up.

It's a proxy for things happening inside your body, you know, with problems, cardiovascular issues, but you're going to see them as certain like modulatory fluctuations in certain frequency bands.

And again, we don't walk around as, you know, a partner or a spouse or a child, you know,

caretaking our parents and listening for the four kilohertz modulation, but an algorithm can.

And all of these are places where you can identify something that is potentially, mitigate something proactively before there's a problem.

And especially with neural degeneration, we're really just getting to a place where there's pharmacological opportunities to slow something down.

And you want to find that as quick as possible.

So you want to have that input so that you can do something about it.

You asked me about the babies.

The type of coughs we have tell us a lot about different pathologies.

For a baby, their cry, their, you know, if I'm thinking, you asked me about a digital tomb, where would I be most interested in using that information if I had, you know, children or, I mean, I do have a child.

But from, you know, in the sort of lowest touch, most opportunity, it's to identify potential victims.