COVID-19 and the Ethics of Democratizing Voice Computing
By Ankita Moss
NeuroLex is a company with the mission of using voice analysis techniques to detect health conditions early to reduce healthcare costs and improve patient outcomes. The company has created a product called SurveyLex, the “first voice-enabled survey platform,” that can collect voice samples across a wide range of digital devices. In a recent interview hosted by Microsoft for Startups, former NeuroLex CEO and current Vice President of Data and Research at Sonde Health, Jim Schwoebel, discusses the founding history of NeuroLex and its growth and utility during the COVID-19 pandemic. Mr. Schwoebel also answered questions for The Neuroethics Blog Team, addressing how and why neural data is useful, how voice data fits under the umbrella of neural data, how voice data relates to COVID-19, and how he manages ethical decision-making in this work. It is important to note that this interview was prior to the acquisition of SurveyLex by Sonde Health.Neural Data and BiomarkersThe con…
NeuroLex is a company with the mission of using voice analysis techniques to detect health conditions early to reduce healthcare costs and improve patient outcomes. The company has created a product called SurveyLex, the “first voice-enabled survey platform,” that can collect voice samples across a wide range of digital devices. In a recent interview hosted by Microsoft for Startups, former NeuroLex CEO and current Vice President of Data and Research at Sonde Health, Jim Schwoebel, discusses the founding history of NeuroLex and its growth and utility during the COVID-19 pandemic. Mr. Schwoebel also answered questions for The Neuroethics Blog Team, addressing how and why neural data is useful, how voice data fits under the umbrella of neural data, how voice data relates to COVID-19, and how he manages ethical decision-making in this work. It is important to note that this interview was prior to the acquisition of SurveyLex by Sonde Health.Neural Data and BiomarkersThe con…
