Canary Speech Launches Canary Ambient™ Continuous Monitoring to Address Workplace Violence in Healthcare

AI-powered voice analysis expands to detect verbal aggression and prevent nurse burnout through real-time vocal biomarker technology, enhancing clinician safety and patient care

PROVO, Utah, Oct. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Canary Speech, a global leader in AI-powered vocal biomarker technology, proudly announces the launch of Canary Ambient™ Continuous Monitoring (CM), which delivers real-time aggression detection and ambient voice analysis for hospitals, health systems, and clinical care environments.

The launch of Canary Ambient™ CM marks a major expansion of Canary Speech's real-time voice analysis capabilities, introducing continuous monitoring to proactively detect verbal aggression and signs of clinician burnout before incidents escalate. The system delivers real-time aggression detection and ambient voice analysis for hospitals, health systems, and other clinical care environments, empowering healthcare teams to safeguard staff and enhance patient outcomes through voice-driven insights.

"The increase in aggressive behavior toward hospital staff, mostly nurses but also other caregivers, has been well-documented," said Kang Hsu, Jr., MD, Chief Medical Officer with Canary Speech. "With Canary Ambient™ CM, you can now analyze in-room audio to detect whether a patient is speaking aggressively and alert staff to this issue before it escalates to verbal or physical violence."

As part of this launch, Teladoc Health will integrate Canary Ambient™ CM into its own AI-powered monitoring platform to strengthen virtual workplace safety intervention. The system's ambient listening capabilities analyze in-room audio through Canary's aggressive language vocal biomarker technology. When an escalating threat is detected, Canary's analysis helps inform Teladoc Health's workplace safety assessment algorithms, triggering intelligent notifications to care teams and hospital staff for timely intervention.

"Our devices and technology are already trusted across thousands of hospital rooms to support the evolving needs of care teams," said Tim Wright, Senior Vice President, Strategy and Innovation, Hospital and Health Systems at Teladoc Health. "Partnering with Canary Speech allows us to offer best-in-class capabilities and build on that trust and assurance that healthcare responders need to support safety in the workplace."

Patient aggression has become a growing crisis in healthcare, with nearly half of nurses reporting experiences of workplace abuse or violence, leading to record burnout and turnover. Canary Ambient™ CM uses vocal biomarker technology to identify verbal aggression in real time, alerting clinicians before situations escalate.

Building on the success of Canary Ambient™, which set a new standard in clinical voice analysis and cognitive and behavioral health screening in 2024, Canary Ambient™ CM key features include:

• Continuous, Real-Time Aggression Detection: Monitors and analyzes patient speech using more than 2,500 speech features, instantly identifying aggression and behavioral risk factors.
• Flexible Deployment:
  
  • Hybrid Solution uses local Voice Activity Detection (VAD) for passive speech monitoring and secure, on-demand assessment via Canary's cloud.
  • Edge Solution runs analytics onsite, ensuring audio data never leaves customer hardware—ideal for organizations prioritizing privacy.
• Seamless Workflow Integration: API-driven architecture supports streaming, speaker identification, and efficient deployment within existing clinical systems.
• Staff Protection: Early alerts empower nurses and clinicians to intervene or call for assistance promptly, addressing risks before incidents occur.
• Expanded Capabilities: Extends Canary Ambient™'s existing cognitive and behavioral analytics, delivering real-time feedback and insights across all patient-clinician dialogues.

For product information and demonstrations, contact [email protected] or visit www.canaryspeech.com.

About Canary Speech
Canary Speech is a Utah-based, AI-powered voice biomarker health tech company, utilizing patented real-time vocal analysis to screen for mental health and neurological disorders. Canary's technology swiftly captures and analyzes speech data, detecting behavioral and cognitive changes—including signs of anxiety, depression, and dementia—often before traditional clinical standards or noticeable symptoms. Recently, Canary Speech launched Canary Ambient™, an API-first solution for real-time voice analysis in healthcare and contact centers. This clinical decision support software provides actionable insights from patient-clinician conversations by tracking speech patterns for real-time assessments of cognitive and behavioral health conditions. Canary Speech advances speech and language applications across health systems, payers, and pharmaceutical markets.

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SOURCE Canary Speech