Starkey's emerging health features - AI will spot mood from wearer's voice

What will the next generations of Starkey hearing aids bring?   The potential for hearing aid microphones and their AI processing to inform on wearers' moods will inevitably deliver health features that go beyond current ability to inform on step count, heart rate, and patient tumbles. The role of the voice being used in future health systems for precision diagnosis was well underlined by Luxembourg scientists in their 2021 paper Voice for Health: The Use of Vocal Biomarkers from Research to Clinical Practice, a paper stating that "vocal biomarkers will track key health parameters remotely and will be used for deep phenotyping patients or designing innovative trials, opening the way to precision medicine, while voice technologies will be integrated into clinical practice to ease the lives of...