Parkinson's affects some 6 million people worldwide. Although surgery
and drugs can hold back its progression, there is no cure. Diagnosing it
and tracking its course usually relies on an assessment of someone's
symptoms using the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale, which
involves tests of motor skills, for example. The process is
time-consuming, expensive and requires people to attend a clinic for the
tests to be carried out. It is partly because of this that it is
thought that around a fifth of cases of Parkinson's are never diagnosed. A speech-processing algorithm could use the sound of your voice to
diagnose a range of diseases, and spell the end of invasive physical
exams.
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