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Faking Illness: Voice Recognition Science

This chapter explores the phenomenon of feigning illness and introduces a study from India that investigates how technology can identify healthy versus sick voices through vocal tone analysis. By leveraging machine learning and voice recordings, researchers aim to distinguish colds with promising but still developing accuracy.

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