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Editorial
. 2022 May 30:10:887492.
doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.887492. eCollection 2022.

Editorial: Voice Technology and Conversational Agents in Health Care Delivery

Emre Sezgin  1   2 , Shona D'Arcy  3
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Editorial: Voice Technology and Conversational Agents in Health Care Delivery

Emre Sezgin et al. Front Public Health. .
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Keywords: chatbot; conversational agent (CA); digital health (eHealth); healthcare; voice technology.

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Special issue's content topics at a glance. NLU, natural language understanding; PGHD, patient-generated health data. The figure has been designed using an image from Freepik.com.
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