The Voice of the Body: Why AI Should Listen to It and an Archive

The sound generated by body carries important information about our health status physically and psychologically. In the past decades, we have witnessed a plethora of successes achieved in the field of body sound analysis. Nevertheless, the fundamentals of this young field are still not well established. In particular, publicly accessible databases are rarely developed, which dramatically restrains a sustainable research. To this end, we are launching and continuously calling for participation from the global scientific community to contribute to the Voice of the Body (VoB) archive. We aim to build an open access platform to collect the well-established body sound databases in a well standardized way. Moreover, we hope to organize a series of challenges to promote the development of audio-driven methods for healthcare via the proposed VoB. We believe that VoB can help break the walls between different subjects toward an era of Medicine 4.0 enriched by audio intelligence.

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The sound generated by the human body carries valuable information about both physical and psychological health. Although there have been numerous successes in the field of body sound analysis in recent decades, the fundamental principles are not yet well-established. The lack of publicly accessible databases hinders sustainable research. Therefore, we are launching the Voice of the Body (VoB) archive to collect well-established body sound databases in a standardized manner. We also aim to organize challenges to promote the development of audio-driven healthcare methods. We believe that VoB can break barriers between different disciplines, leading to an era of Medicine 4.0 enriched by audio intelligence.