LOS ANGELES: A computer system that can detect dementia at an early stage with 85 percent accuracy by analysing a person’s voice and speech patterns has been developed by IBM’s research lab in Haifa.
Diagnosis is through a series of tests conducted using a smartphone or tablet computer and takes only a few minutes.
The technology is partially based on IBM’s Watson cognitive computer system, which can recognize human speech. The system also uses dedicated algorithms developed by IBM Israel…