To study the possibility of using acoustic parameters, i.e., Acoustic Voice Quality Index (AVQI) and Maximum Phonation Time (MPT) for predicting the degree of lung involvement in COVID-19 patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study aimed to develop an artificial intelligence (AI)-based tool for screening COVID-19 patients based on the acoustic parameters of their voices. Twenty-five acoustic parameters were extracted from voice samples of 203 COVID-19 patients and 171 healthy individuals who produced a sustained vowel, i.e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: With the COVID-19 outbreak around the globe and its potential effect on infected patients' voice, this study set out to evaluate and compare the acoustic parameters of voice between healthy and infected people in an objective manner.
Methods: Voice samples of 64 COVID-19 patients and 70 healthy Persian speakers who produced a sustained vowel /a/ were evaluated. Between-group comparisons of the data were performed using the two-way ANOVA and Wilcoxon's rank-sum test.