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Sonde Launches Voice Health Screening for COVID-19
Sonde Launches Voice Health Screening for COVID-19.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n RNS Number : 3296S\n PureTech Health PLC\n 08 July 2020\n \n \n \n \n 8 July 2020\n \n \n PureTech Health plc\n \n \n \n \n \n \n PureTech Founded Entity Sonde Health Launches \n \n \n New Voice-Enabled Health Screening Tool to Potentially Help Employers Return to Work During the Global Pandemic\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonde One combines 6-second voice analysis, CDC-informed COVID-19 questionnaire and body temperature reading in one app\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PureTech Health plc\n \n \n (LSE: PRTC) (\"PureTech\"\n \n or the \"Company\"), a clinical-stage biotherapeutics company dedicated to discovering, developing and commercialising highly differentiated medicines for devastating diseases, is pleased to note that its Founded Entity, Sonde Health, has launched Sonde One, a new voice-enabled health detection and monitoring app to potentially help employers improve employee safety, meet government mandates and satisfy their own administrative needs as they reopen office doors in a rapidly changing COVID-19 environment. \n \n \n \n \n \n The announcement from Sonde Health is below:\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sonde Health Launches New Voice-Enabled Health Screening Tool to Help Employers Return to Work During the Global Pandemic\n \n \n \n \n \n Sonde One combines 6-second voice analysis, COVID-19 questionnaire, and body temperature reading in one app\n \n \n \n \n \n \n BOSTON-July 8, 2020-\n \n As businesses across the country grapple with how to safely bring employees back to the physical workplace, a new voice-enabled health detection and monitoring app from \n \n \n Sonde Health\n \n \n promises to potentially help employers improve employee safety, meet government mandates, and satisfy their own administrative needs as they reopen office doors in a rapidly changing COVID-19 environment.\n \n \n \n \n \n The new tool, called \n \n \n Sonde One\n \n \n , leverages the company's advanced vocal biomarker platform and machine learning technology. With a single 6-second voice sample, the app is designed to quickly and objectively detect respiratory symptoms, such as coughing, shortness of breath, or chest tightness or pain. The app combines this voice analysis with a comprehensive, CDC-informed COVID-19 questionnaire and user inputted body temperature to give employe...