Welcome to Chasing Life. You know, you may not notice in your everyday life, but your voice probably says a lot about you.

Some voices are very iconic.

No, I am the father, move.

Recognize him? That's James Earl Jones, and he's voicing the infamous Star Wars villain Darth Vader.

He also was the powerful voice of Mufasa from the Lion King.

The sun was set on my time here.

He even lent his voice to this network.

This is CNN.

The thing is, all voices have something to say, iconic or not, but the point is they don't

just articulate words. They can signal a lot more than that. They can signal how you're feeling,

physically, mentally. They can conjure up memories, just the voice alone. They can even reveal

secrets. I remember I was at a soccer game with my kids, so there was

a lot of noise around. She said, hey, how are you? And I said, you're pregnant. And she said,

how do you know? Dr. Yael Bonsusen is a laryngologist. She is director of the University of South

Florida's Health Voice Center. She is co-leading research there on using AI and the human voice

to try and detect diseases and perhaps even treat them. If you think about your Alexa at home,

your devices series that can integrate vocal biomarkers to help understand your health,

that's really where the future is going, in my opinion.

The technology isn't there yet. But Dr. Bansousin joins me on the podcast today to talk about

what voice can do, why voice health matters, and how exactly your voice can tell you so much

about your overall well-being. I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent,

and this is chasing life.

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