Diagnosing (type 2) diabetes from your voice.

[Amity Island]

Using an audio sample of just six to 10 seconds, along with basic health data like age, sex, height and weight, scientists created an AI model that can determine whether someone is diabetic with almost 90% accuracy.

Short voice recordings can be used to test people for diabetes, study finds

Previous research has found short voice recordings - in combination with AI - can diagnose other illnesses, including COVID-19.

news.sky.com

 

[Robin]

It’s talking about Type 2 only. I do wish journalists would specify that in the headline.

 

[Eddy Edson]

It'd be *much* more impressive if the AI could diagnose T2D from video clips of people miming.

 

[mikeyB]

Sounds like taking a history of age, height, and weight and sex, those results on 90% accuracy seems like a good bet. If someone is 5ft 3" and weighs 12 st and is a sixty year old female, then it is almost a 100% chance that they are Type 2 diabetic.

It's also far cheaper to dip a testing stick in their urine. And more accurate.

 

[Leadinglights]

Are they sure it's not the words that people say, like 'Oh I can't possible give up cakes or chips'

 

[Inka]

That’s actually really interesting. I wouldn’t have thought they could do that.