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Depressed? We can tell by your voice, academics say

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sun Aug 17, 2008 6:23 PM EDT
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A MELBOURNE engineer is working on a computer program that can diagnose depressed teenagers simply by analysing their voice.
The world-first research, by RMIT senior lecturer Margaret Lech, could transform psychiatry, which lacks an objective test for this illness. It could even be used as a screening test in high schools or when someone phones a health provider.

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