How exactly do the regulations work here? What happens if someone releases an app that converts sound data into a binary result, and while it doesn’t claim to be a Covid test, it just-so-happens that when a cough sound is input the True/False output correlates very highly with Covid infection?
From the paper they are actually planning on trying this within a Fortune 100 company so this at least must be allowable.
To that end, we have reached an agreement with a Fortune 100 company to demonstrate the value of our tool as part of their COVID-19 management practices. As we have shown there are cultural and age differences in coughs, future work could focus on tailoring the model to different age groups and regions of the world using the metadata captured, something we would like to test at the company site.
The regulation problem may be primarily in the handling/collection of training data. Sound files are considered (at least by the big voice-product providers) to be personally-identifiable, and medical information about whether someone has (or probably-has, or claims-to-have) COVID-19 is very restricted in lots of jurisdictions.
This research data and the production system should perhaps be based outside of the US or Europe.
How exactly do the regulations work here? What happens if someone releases an app that converts sound data into a binary result, and while it doesn’t claim to be a Covid test, it just-so-happens that when a cough sound is input the True/False output correlates very highly with Covid infection?
From the paper they are actually planning on trying this within a Fortune 100 company so this at least must be allowable.
The regulation problem may be primarily in the handling/collection of training data. Sound files are considered (at least by the big voice-product providers) to be personally-identifiable, and medical information about whether someone has (or probably-has, or claims-to-have) COVID-19 is very restricted in lots of jurisdictions.
This research data and the production system should perhaps be based outside of the US or Europe.