Depression can be detected from your voice note sent on WhatsApp. It may sound strange, but scientists have created such an AI model, which can detect the mental health of humans just from voice notes. This has been revealed from research published in PLOS Mental Health a few days ago. This is an AI model, which can accurately identify symptoms of depression based on audio recordings.
More accuracy in case of women
Research led by Brazilian researcher Victor HO Otani revealed that AI could identify cases of depression in women with about 92 percent accuracy, while in the case of men its accuracy had dropped to 75 percent. For this, AI needs only a recording, in which a person is having a normal conversation like narrating his daily routine. Actually, due to depression, there is a change in the speed, pitch and energy of a person’s speech, which this AI model can easily catch.
What will be the benefit of this?
This technology can be beneficial on a large scale across the world. This could be especially revolutionary for people suffering from depression in low-income countries and regions where going to a psychologist is difficult or expensive. Cases of depression have increased all over the world for some time, but mental health resources are limited. Due to this, people do not get timely treatment. People involved in this research say that this technology cannot replace doctors, but it can work as a cheap and powerful screening tool. Its working method also does not make people uncomfortable and they just have to record the voice note.
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