AI-enabled voice expertise platform Sonde Well being introduced it’s partnering with Saaya Well being, a digital psychological well being and well-being platform, to increase its mixed choices to giant blue-collar workforces.
Sonde Well being’s platform makes use of its patented voice expertise that analyzes quick voice samples to detect varied well being situations from biomarkers in an individual’s voice, together with respiratory health, melancholy and nervousness.
Saaya Well being presents an worker well-being platform the place customers can entry one-on-one counseling classes with a psychologist, workshops on well-being and coaching, AI-enabled dietary teaching, a specialised program for blue-collar staff and a 24/7 hotline to entry assist. The corporate additionally presents surveys and assessments for HR to grasp their staff higher.
The partnership will combine Sonde’s vocal biomarker expertise platform into Saaya’s psychological well being platform.
The businesses mentioned in an announcement that the built-in platform has been piloted at one of many world’s largest oil and gasoline corporations, with expectations that shoppers within the vitality, manufacturing and logistics industries will roll out the providing later this 12 months.
“Frontline staff are the high-performance spine of many industries, but they usually lack entry to proactive well being monitoring instruments,” David Liu, CEO of Sonde Well being, mentioned in an announcement.
“By combining our voice-based well being insights with Saaya’s psychological well being assist companies, we offer giant enterprises with the flexibility to search out staff in want of assist earlier than they’re unwell, so the complete workforce stays wholesome and productive.”
THE LARGER TREND
In 2022, Sonde Well being secured $19.25 million in a Sequence B funding, bringing its complete elevate to $35.25 million. A month earlier than the elevate, the corporate obtained a $2 million strategic funding from South Korean telecommunications big KT Company.
Sonde Well being licensed its voice expertise from MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory and, in 2018, obtained unique licensing agreements for the patent.
Different corporations that provide vocal biomarker evaluation embody Kintsugi and Canary Speech. Kintsugi’s platform analyzes one’s voice to assist establish situations like nervousness and melancholy. Canary Speech final 12 months was awarded a patent for the event of its paired neural networks for speech evaluation geared toward advancing the sphere of voice biomarker expertise.
