e-sensia, a French startup, has developed the first artificial intelligence system applied to voice capable of detecting signs of severity during medical calls. “A safety net to help emergency dispatchers better direct patients,” promise its creators.

Artificial intelligence (AI) can help save lives. This is the belief that drives Cédric Thoma and Dr. Jean-Baptiste Perney, co-founders of the startup e-sensia. A conviction that led the two thirty-somethings and their team of about ten engineers to develop, since April 2024, a unique technology in Europe.

“This innovation, designed and validated with doctors and for doctors, represents a major breakthrough in medical regulation,” enthusiastically asserts Jean-Baptiste Perney, an emergency doctor in Paris. “A solution based on an AI system applied to the analysis of emergency calls, capable of detecting, in real time, severity markers and thus helping operators make faster and more accurate decisions to better direct patients,” promises his partner Cédric Thoma.

A machine that learns to identify critical situations

How? In order to develop computer models capable of detecting, just by listening to the exchange between the caller and the operator, a risk of stroke, heart attack, or respiratory distress, the first step was to teach the machine how to evaluate different situations.

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