COVID-19 Sounds

Contribute your cough and voice sounds for research into COVID-19.

COVID-19 Sounds - Contribute for Research

"COVID-19 Sounds" is an Android app developed for a research project at the University of Cambridge, aiming to collect voice, breathing, and coughing sounds to aid machine learning in detecting COVID-19. Users provide voice samples, basic demographics, and medical history data while reading text prompts. The data collected will be used solely for research purposes, ensuring user privacy, and contributing to the larger scientific understanding of the virus. The app is available in multiple languages.
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App stats

Users: 41,311
1
Rating: 2.82
(158)
Version: 1.1.19 (Last updated: 2020-10-15)
Creation date: 2020-03-26
Permissions
Identity: find accounts on the device
Contacts: find accounts on the device
Location: approximate location (network-based)
Microphone: record audio
Wi-Fi connection information: view Wi-Fi connections
Other:
  • read sync statistics
  • view network connections
  • create accounts and set passwords
  • full network access
  • read sync settings
  • toggle sync on and off

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App summary

This app is part of a research project at the University of Cambridge. The aim of this research is to develop machine learning algorithms to automatically detect if a person is suffering of COVID-19, based primarily on sounds of their voice, their breathing and coughing.

In order to enable this research we are launching a large scale, crowdsourced data collection through a mobile app. The app will collect some basic demographics and medical history data, as well as some voice samples (while you read text on the screen) through a questionnaire and a few seconds of breathing and coughing through the phone microphone. We will additionally collect one location sample. The app will also ask if you have tested positive for the virus. The app won't be tracking you and only collect this data when you actively interact with it.

The data will be stored on University servers and be used solely for research purposes. We hope to release the dataset we are collecting to other researchers after the initial analysis.

The app will not give medical advice and any reports of symptoms will not be responded to by medical assistance.

This app is available in English, Spanish, French, German, Hindi, Greek, Portuguese, Russian, Italian, and Chinese.

User reviews

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Pros
  • Easy to use
  • Great idea for public health
  • Potential for long-term usefulness
Cons
  • Not providing results back to users
  • Issues with survey frequency and structure
  • Technical problems, such as app not opening and broken links
Most mentioned
  • Data collection without feedback
  • Survey-related frustrations
  • Overall usefulness of the app
User reviews
Very nice

It was interesting, but I wonder because who wants to increase their wealth, should consider increasing not decreasing number of people in the world!?
by Maher Bashour, 2023-10-30

It wont give the result. Just collecting data. Quite unethical.
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