Nov 122008
 

A MELBOURNE engineer is working on a computer program that can diagnose depressed teenagers simply by analysing their voice, The Age reports.

“The world-first research, by RMIT senior lecturer Margaret Lech, could transform psychiatry, which lacks an objective test for this illness. It could even be used as a screening test in high schools or when someone phones a health provider.”

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