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Speech patterns could help monitor Parkinson’s

British and American researches may have found a suitable alternative to troublesome hospital visits when it comes to tracking the development of Parkinson’s disease. By studying over 6,000 speech recordings from study participants, computer algorithms can now very closely analyze symptom severity and return reliable findings on speech detection alone.

The study also revealed that speech impairment is linked to the average overall severity of other Parkinson’s disease symptoms, meaning that speech analysis could accurately determine symptom severity, and that in the future, analysis could potentially happen over a phone call instead of a hospital visit.

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