The speaker, a surgeon and scientist, explains the importance of voice and how it is connected to a person's health and wellness. They specialize in researching the correlation between sound and health. The speaker discusses how voice is separate from speech and how it can convey a person's emotions and intention. They talk about how voice changes can be indicative of illness and disease, such as laryngeal cancer, and how they and their team are developing an AI model that can detect these changes in a person's voice to help with early detection. The goal is to reduce the number of advanced stage cancers and save lives. The speaker urges people to pay attention to their own voice as well as to donate their voices to aid in research.
1. Voice scientists understand the health and wellness of others through sound.
2. Speech and voice are distinct things.
3. Voice conveys information beyond the words spoken, such as emotion.
4. Voice change due to illness is common.
5. There are over 50 diseases that can cause voice change.
6. Early detection of voice changes can lead to early cancer detection and higher survival rates.
7. A deep learning model can be used to identify growths in the throat at a 93% accuracy.
8. An app has been developed to allow family medicine doctors to easily access the tool on smartphones.
9. The goal is to reduce the number of advanced stage cancers of the larynx.
10. Voice donation can help improve accuracy in early detection.