Inspiration The new COVID-19 virus is testing our countries, our societies and all of us human beings. 3 billion people are now living under lockdown with no clarity on when we can bring normalcy to our lives. Our lives are on hold, our livelihood threatened and our mental health under stress.
In this critical moment, our question was how can we work together to solve one of the biggest crises of our lifetime?
We started a few weeks ago to gather different expertise people from around the world around a common cause to use technology and big data to improve diagnosis. As some of our team members are highly skilled in voice recognition, we came up with a concept for voice diagnostics: just provide your voice and cough samples by speaking into your smartphone microphone or computer microphone, and have the software instantly give you a pre-diagnosis!
Our vision is to become the most convenient and effective way for diagnostics and healthcare!
How I built it
We worked closely with pulmonologists and virologists to create a survey of questions that we need to ask to identify COVID-19 patients and we end up with a final survey. We started collecting data of COVID-19 patients as well as healthy people to train the machine.
Challenges I ran into
2 big challenges: Collecting a sufficient amount of training data to generate models that will give highly accurate inference results Creating the right instructions for recording voice data. Many patients were recording unclear sounds, and our team spent many hours cleaning the data (the initial voice samples). Challenges in voice recognition pattern
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
Winner - Hack for Crisis Italy Winner - Hack for Crisis Sweden One of top 10 entries - Hack for Crisis Norway Have inspired many people to continue working in the project after their initial hackathon participation
What I learned
People are inspired to work together to act when there is a strong common cause and the stronger the cause, it is easier and faster to inspire more people to join! (We are 40+ people from 10+ countries - Started 3 weeks ago, experts in Health, Machine Learning, Marketing, Business, Product, Tech, Compliance,..)
Thousands of people around the world are interested to find solutions to deal with our current situations!
What's next for Voicemed
People are inspired to work together to act when there is a strong common cause and the stronger the cause, it is easier and faster to inspire more people to join! (We are 40+ people from 10+ countries - Started 3 weeks ago, experts in Health, Machine Learning, Marketing, Business, Product, Tech, Compliance,..)
Thousands of people around the world are interested to find solutions to deal with our current situations!
Hey everyone! Here Chiara from VOICEMED team.
VoiceMed utilises AI e ML to diagnose if a person is affected by COVID19 or not with vocal recognition and others surveys symptoms! Have a look on our video explanation! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A-teMVHjRw&feature=youtu.be Now we developed a web prototype to collect datas and we’re developing a call product(voicemed.io).
We got 1st place in hack for Italy, 1st place in Sweden , 10th place in Norway and 8th place in Global Hack!
VoiceMed would like to onboard more people with the spirit of fighting against Covid!
IMPORTANT: IF YOU WANT TO JOIN, OR MORE INFO, WRITE TO ME!
If you are inspired by Hackathon , want to make an Impact and contribute to something Inspiring and Innovative - join our global team!
We are looking for:
FINANCE
LEGAL
•Legal / GDPR / Privacy / Intellectual Property/Software lawyers / Cybersecurity •SW security experience, especially with knowledge of user data privacy. This person or persons will 1) analyse and review the SW security design on a system level to figure out potential attack points; 2) able to judge if the user data the SW is collecting goes overboard. This person or persons will work closely with the Legal person who is familiar with GDPR and user data privacy laws from a legal perspective to advise the SW development team and the business owners.
TECHNICAL
• Machine Learning, A.I. (if possible with speech processing skills) • Visual recognition expert • SW developers to design and implement the API, SW developers to implement the IVR • Developer Proficient with full-stack tech (e.g. React, Node, Firebase, and such) • Product Owner (mobile or Web) • App developer (gamification) • SW developers to implement the IVR app
MEDICAL
• Researcher - Medical • Doctor with at least 8 hr per week time commitment, Management experience willing to lead our diagnosis effectiveness KPI • Medical doctor: Pulmonologist, epidemiologists or Infectologist. Or with experience in voice, or pneumonia, lung diagnostics or treatment or similar. • Telemedicine and e-health specialists
FUNDINGS
• Person experienced in CROWDFUNDING campaigns • Fundraising • CFO (VERY IMPORTANT)
PRUDUCT
• Product Designer (UX/UI)
OTHER:
• Legal / GDPR / Privacy / • Data Acquisition Lead (Voice Recordings) - The more data we have the more precise is our software! • Data engeneering • Quality Assurance • and all the PEOPLE inspired by the concept!
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