Cordio HearO: the app that could detect heart failure by the sound of your voice

Researchers have developed a speech analysis smartphone app, called Cordio HearO, with the ability to detect acute heart failure. Heart failure is the leading cause of hospitalization in the USA and Europe, with over 26 million individuals affected worldwide. There is, therefore, a global need for increased monitoring of patients and simpler methods to identify symptoms. Now, an international team of researchers has developed a voice analysis smartphone app with the ability to detect lung congestion in heart failure patients, named Cordio HearO. The app, presented at HFA Discoveries 2020 (5-19 June 2020), would allow acute heart failure to be...