Beware, your boss can now catch your excuse of faking cold

We are living in the post pandemic era where people are still scared of viral contractions. As we are also witnessing the rise in number of covid cases again, there are chances that people around you will excuse you; especially it might become the most convenient and ‘genuine’ sounding excuse at your workplace. Are you the one who fakes cold? Hang on! Start thinking of a better excuse from now.

Today, when artificial intelligence is booming and transforming the world, a team of three researchers from Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SVNIT), Surat in association with a researcher from Rhenish University of Applied Sciences of Germany have developed a procedure that would distinguish normal voice and the one with common cold.

The research paper titled ‘Sinusoidal model- based diagnosis of the common cold from the speech’ has been published in Biomedical Signal Processing and Control. The team of researchers includes Suman Deb, Pankaj Warule and Siba Mishra in association with Jarek Krajewski.

The entire idea behind this research was to develop speech signal based non-invasive diagnostic techniques that can work remotely as well. They had collected around 630 voice data base where the success rate was around 70% that identified voices with cold or no cold.