All posts tagged ‘audio’

November 10, 2009 by Caleb

Skip the Trip to the Doctor, Cough into Your Phone for an Instant Diagnosis

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Feeling under the weather? Cough into your phone for a diagnosis. Scientists are developing a way to do this by building an audio database to match recorded coughs against. Wet or dry, productive or non-productive, categorizing coughs is nothing new. Doctors have been doing it for ages to make decisions regarding their patients' health. Now it can be done digitally. Telegraph details the process here.