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Voice Analytics Tool to Detect COVID19   New Delhi: A university in Rome is conducting a pilot run for a patented artificial intelligence-based tool developed by three biotechnology students and a professor from Mumbai, which they claim can test COVID-19 through voice-based diagnosis using a smartphone. The tool is being tested by the University of Tor Vergata in Rome and has already been tested on 300 individuals, and has yielded 98 per cent accurate results. According to the students and the professor from DY Patil Institute of Bio Technology and Bio Informatics, Mumbai, the tool is based on a voice-based diagnosis through an app. The team includes bioinformatics students – Rashmi Chakraborty, Priyanka Chauhan and Priya Garg. “While several foreign universities are trying to launch a voice-based AI tool for COVID-19 detection, this Indian tool is fully functional and currently in use in Italy to successfully identify COVID-19 patients. The students have full-fledged working softw...