This tool from Voice Detect Autism

Autism in children can be detected by analyzing their voice. Autistic children say the words differently than normal children. This is then used as capital for experts to create a special tool to diagnose autism through voice analysis.

This tool is a small recorder that fits in your pocket child. This tool is embedded on a type of software to analyze and evaluate certain sounds are pronounced the kids all day.

This device is the creation of experts led by Kimbrough Oller of the University of Memphis, USA. To make this tool, Oller and his team analyzed more than three million pronunciation of syllables, which were collected from 1,500 recorded 232 children aged 10 months to four years.

As reported in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a program that is planted on the tool is able to correctly identify 86 percent of existing autism diagnosis.

"Even the experts claimed for years that other autistic children speak when spoken, there is no practical way to use vocalization as part of diagnosis or examination process that is consistent with autism," said Oller, who is also professor of audiology and speech language pathology.

This tool can serve to analyze the sound while in English, but Oller believes its software can be applied to other languages. "It has not been tried, but I think it could work," he said.

Currently, doctors diagnose autism by examining the number of children with behavioral tests and speech patterns, including how they speak of a certain age, and whether they make eye contact with others.

"Autism is a lot of damage to multi-dimentional factors and behaviors that must be considered. Vocalizations clearly an important factor, but I do not think it should be used exclusively," Oller said.

Oller, who examined the learning and the evolution of language, has identified how the formation of different syllables changed in the first four years of age.

According to the analysis, the formation of the speech patterns of autistic children do not follow the usual pattern. The computer program is able to distinguish between the speaker and the spoken voice processing children who are being studied. Recording a full day allow researchers to examine the child's natural speech patterns.

Parents can send the tape after the child using this tool during the day. Recordings sent to a company for analysis. Is Infoture Inc. to develop tools and software. The company was disbanded in February 2009 and was set back to form the foundation named LENA Foundation. The Foundation is a selling tool and fund research.