This is what the future could look like: speak into your cell phone and shortly thereafter come the diagnosis: Covid-19, yes or no. Augsburg researchers have used artificial intelligence to develop a corresponding smartphone app.
Even at the beginning of the corona pandemic, researchers suspected that the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus would be betrayed by the voice - because since the Covid-19 disease caused by the virus is primarily a respiratory disease, the voice must also to be affected. Experienced doctors can often draw conclusions about a disease based on their voice, breath and cough, for example whooping cough or asthma. With many diseases, however, voice changes are barely audible - it is beyond human ability to perceive them.