In most real-time scenarios such as emergency first response or a patient self-monitoring using a wearable device, likely, accessing a healthcare physician for assessing potential vital sign anomalies and providing a recommendation will be impossible; thus potentially putting the patient at risk. Leveraging the latest advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP), this paper presents a research-driven design and development of a cloud-based conversational AI platform trained to predict vital signs anomalies and provides recommendations from a dataset created by physicians. To reinforce the learning of the virtual assistant, the Conversation Driven Development (CDD) methodology has been adopted to involve end users in the testing process in the early phase. The proposed platform will help to manage the consequences of low physician-patient ratios, especially in developing countries.

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has advanced in high-resource languages, but most of the world's 7,000+ languages remain unsupported, leaving thousands of long-tail languages behind. Expanding ASR coverage has been costly and limited by architectures that restrict language support, making extension inaccessible to most--all while entangled with ethical concerns when pursued without community collaboration. To transcend these limitations, we introduce Omnilingual ASR, the first large-scale ASR system designed for extensibility. Omnilingual ASR enables communities to introduce unserved languages with only a handful of data samples. It scales self-supervised pre-training to 7B parameters to learn robust speech representations and introduces an encoder-decoder architecture designed for zero-shot generalization, leveraging a LLM-inspired decoder. This capability is grounded in a massive and diverse training corpus; by combining breadth of coverage with linguistic variety, the model learns representations robust enough to adapt to unseen languages. Incorporating public resources with community-sourced recordings gathered through compensated local partnerships, Omnilingual ASR expands coverage to over 1,600 languages, the largest such effort to date--including over 500 never before served by ASR. Automatic evaluations show substantial gains over prior systems, especially in low-resource conditions, and strong generalization. We release Omnilingual ASR as a family of models, from 300M variants for low-power devices to 7B for maximum accuracy. We reflect on the ethical considerations shaping this design and conclude by discussing its societal impact. In particular, we highlight how open-sourcing models and tools can lower barriers for researchers and communities, inviting new forms of participation. Open-source artifacts are available at this URL.