Sonde’s voice health tracking comes to Qualcomm’s smartphone chips

Vocal biomarker startup Sonde has been quietly plotting a way to make tracking respiratory and mental health as simple as chatting to a smartphone voice assistant.

The Boston-based company, which was founded in 2015, has raised $19 million for its technology that uses brief voice recordings to reveal the progression of health conditions. On Thursday, Sonde announced a new partnership with chip manufacturing giant Qualcomm that could potentially bring the technology to millions of smartphones, which could prove a crucial test of whether its tech is ready for prime time.

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COVID-19: Xavier students test app that tries to read the coronavirus in your voice

Xavier University, a national model for keeping college a face-to-face experience, now is recruiting students to become pioneers in the pandemic’s technology revolution with their phones and their voices.

Once a day, 125 students will use a smartphone app that will listen to each one make the sound “aah” as in “father” for six seconds in a quiet room. The app creator, Sonde Health of Boston, promises….

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The Covid Symptoms Hidden in Our Voices (Podcast)

When we’re coming down with a cold or are feeling a bit stressed, or perhaps even exhibiting the first symptoms of COVID-19: minute changes to our voice are often one of the first indicators that something is wrong. These vocal biomarkers are often beyond what a human can detect: but what if an app on your phone could? Health reporter Michelle Fay Cortez recently spoke to David Liu, CEO of Sonde Health, which has released an app that uses a person’s voice to detect early symptoms of respiratory illnesses, including COVID-19. She explores what vocal biomarkers can tell us.

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