Scientists stated that analysing speech pattern might help in monitoring the severity of Parkinson's disease symptoms and this can save a lot of burden and pressure on patients and health authorities as well.

Almost 6,000 speech recordings from 42 people with Parkinson's were analysed by researchers from Britain and the United States and using the data to estimate how bad the symptoms were developed algorithms.

Max Little of Britain's Oxford University, who worked on the study said, "Currently, monitoring requires frequent visits to hospital where people with Parkinson's are physically examined by expert clinicians in order to assess their symptom severity, putting a strain on both patients and hospital resources."

The researchers said they believed the technique could help ease the resource burden on health systems as this technique could be used with patients' speech recordings or over the telephone. Also using this technique will make it possible to run large-scale trials of experimental treatments for Parkinson's.

Suggesting that symptom severity can be measured just by analysing speech, Little said good evidence could be provided by the study about speech impairment and the average overall severity of other Parkinson's disease symptoms being linked.