United Kingdom, Sept. 29 -- Artificial intelligence could help detect type 2 diabetes by analysing a short voice recording, according to new research suggesting the technology may offer a faster way to identify people who need further testing.

Researchers from AI health technology company Thymia and RMIT University in Melbourne developed a speech analysis tool that can recognise patterns linked to the condition from a 20-second audio clip.

The AI model was trained using more than 63,000 voice recordings from over 21,000 people in the UK and US.

Researchers tested the system using recordings of people reading Aesop's fables and found it could identify those who reported having type 2 diabetes with an accuracy rate of 80 per cent.

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