Abstract: Described embodiments include apparatus that includes a network interface (28) and a processor (30). The processor is configured to receive, via the network interface, speech of a subject (22) who suffers from a pulmonary condition related to accumulation of excess fluid, to identify, by analyzing the speech, one or more speech-related parameters of the speech, to assess, in response to the speech-related parameters, a status of the pulmonary condition, and to generate, in response thereto, an output indicative of the status of the pulmonary condition. Other embodiments are also described.

Abstract: Described embodiments include apparatus that includes a network interface (28) and a processor (30). The processor is configured to receive, via the network interface, speech of a subject (22) who suffers from a pulmonary condition related to accumulation of excess fluid, to identify, by analyzing the speech, one or more speech-related parameters of the speech, to assess, in response to the speech-related parameters, a status of the pulmonary condition, and to generate, in response thereto, an output indicative of the status of the pulmonary condition. Other embodiments are also described.

Abstract: A computerized method and system for measuring a user's lung capacity and stamina, to detect Chronic Heart Failure, COPD or Asthma, comprising: providing a client application on a user's mobile communication device, said client application comprising executable computer code for: instructing the user to fill his lungs with air and utter vocal sounds within a certain range of loudness (decibels) while exhaling; receiving and registering by the mobile communication device said user's vocal sounds; stopping the registering of vocal sounds; measuring the length of the vocal sounds receiving time within said range of loudness, said time proportionate the user's lung volumes; and displaying the length of sound received time results on the mobile communication device screen.