Smartphone program is able
to read emotions?!
Article: Toronto Sun
Published: Tuesday 4th December 2012
Article Written by: QMI Agency
Summary:
Recently, researchers from the University of Rochester have unrapped a new program that will be able to tell your emotions from a humans voice. The way this program works is that if you are talking to it, it scans your for emotional cues rather than actually focusing on the words. This program is has been tested out by 12 different speeches, each with different sound and pitch and is 81% accurate. As this program will evolve, it can become a wide range of technology and be use in all sorts of cases. Wendy Heinzelmen, professor of electrical and computer engineering quotes "We actually used recording of actors reading out the date of the month -- it really doesn't matter what they say, it's how they're saying it that we're interested in."
Opinion:
I think that this is a marvelous idea. The evolution of technology is truely phenomenal, and this program will be extremely useful. For example, it could be extremely popular for detectives. When they are talking to a criminal the way they say the truth could be determined how they are saying it. It could either be in a happy way or a nervous way; from this you can determine if the criminal is guilty. Also the idea of making this an app is also very smart. Now a days, most of the percentage of the population who have cell phones do have a type of smartphone; whether it's a IPhone, Android etc. Therefore they do not have to buy a whole different device, with one click of a button on there smartphone they can use this app! Great idea!
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ReplyDeleteI also agree with Krisztian about this new invention; I believe that this is a very cool application that will garner a lot of interest for people who want to clearly see how they, or how other people, are feeling. It is also a pretty ingenious idea of listening to the tones and pitches of a person's voice, rather than the words spoken to identify the person's emotions. Although it does seem to be cool, I do not believe it will have many practical uses, such as how you said it could be used for a detective. If it only currently has an 81% accuracy rate, then there are other lie detecting machines that do their job much better. If anything, this program would just be used out of convenience; however, as a consumer, I would buy it for the sole reason that it is something that has never been done before on a smartphone and seems to be intriguing.
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