Automatic Detection of Allergic Rhinitis.

The spectral characteristics of speech can be used to cluster individuals according to whether or not they suffer from an allergy. Based on the principles of adaptive modelling and fundamental frequency variations, as well as speech analysis by means of acoustic models, our technique achieves an efficient classification based on uttered speech over a mobile phone. The final decision is derived by combining the individual estimates, providing a tool for the automatic diagnosis of allergies.