yesterday because that we've launched
this Parkinson's voice initiative and
it's been it's exceeded all expectations
really in terms of a response just
through the US and the UK which is
mainly the main audience obviously for
English language speaking news
broadcasts we've already managed to
reach close to the 1,000 call target in
about 16 hours which is given that we
are planning the project to actually run
for six months is you know fantastic so
why are we collecting the data well you
need to be able to screen out the
difference you need to be able to
separate out the difference between
people and have Parkinson's needs and
those who don't as part of that what
you'll find is that when you collect
data in a new kind of setting there are
all sorts of confounding factors that
occur that you can't necessarily
anticipate so you need to randomize you
need to go out into the population and
collect random samples from a large
number of people and in doing so what
you find is that these confounding
effects like for example somebody may be
a heavy smoker and that might look like
Parkinson's to the algorithms and so you
need to be able to iron out those
effects and this is what randomization
does but you to do that to get the right
level of statistical power you need to
collect along danger
that question about how long it will
take two together to get a working
system that patients can use depends a
lot on the circumstances in a way what
we've proven is we've proven the
technology show we've shown that the
core difficult part essentially the
difficult parts of it or the bit that
requires the new science has been done
and now we're really trying out this
science in different contexts the goal
next of course is an implementation
question and of course a lot of that
depends on for example where they were
going to be using it in a neurologist
surgery for example whether it's going
to be used you know by a patient at home
in which case it might be on a
smartphone or it might be something that
is on a website that people can use in
which case that's more of a consumer
application for example there are lots
of different impossible implementations
all of which are based around the same
technology and the question of course is
just you know which which sort of
application are we talking about so that
that these things of course it just
depends on resources to it into a large
extent way