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Just cough into here, please: Cambridge-developed app slurps the sounds of COVID-19

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Rec-captcha

> Those good intentions are potentially undermined by the use of Google's reCAPTCHA service, used to deter bots from recording their coughs,

Coughing into speech recognition and then pasting that in as the response to the audio captcha probably works.

I got fed up with identifying traffic lights and wondering whether the pole counted or not so switched to using the audio instead. It's now a game to see just how unlike the sound a word can be and still get through. It's surprisingly lax.

[Icon -> because the need for captchas in the first place]

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