Software Diagnoses Voice Disorders over the Phone
From: Medical Design Technology - 06/18/2015

The voice can be affected by a range of disorders, ranging from Parkinson's
disease and strokes to spasmodic dysphonia, a condition in which the muscles
of the vocal cords move abnormally.

These different disorders all change the sound of patients' speech in
different ways, but it's very difficult for a listener to identify the
underlying condition.

Dr. Ladan Ravary, a phonetics expert who is a Knowledge Exchange Fellow in
The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities (TORCH) has developed software
which can analyze a brief phone questionnaire, searching for the
characteristic signs of a range of conditions.

Read the entire article and view a video (2:32) at:
http://www.mdtmag.com/news/2015/06/software-diagnoses-voice-disorders-over-phone

Links:
Ladan Ravary
http://www.phon.ox.ac.uk/ravary

The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities (TORCH)
http://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/

University of Oxford Research Impact
http://www.ox.ac.uk/research/research-impact