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Posted: Saturday January 15th, 2005 09:40 |
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A voicemail system that labels messages according to the caller's tone of voice could soon be helping people identify which messages are the most urgent. The software, called Emotive Alert, is designed by Zeynep Inanoglu and Ron Caneel of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US.
It might be installed at the phone exchange or in an intelligent answering machine, where it will listen to incoming messages and send the recipient a text message along with an emoticon indicating whether the message is urgent, happy, excited or formal.
It works by extracting the distribution of volume, pitch and speech rate - the ratio of words to pauses - in the first 10 seconds of each message, and then comparing them with eight stored "acoustical fingerprints" that roughly represent eight emotional states: urgent or not urgent; formal or informal; happy or sad; excited or calm.
The fingerprints were created by "learning" software, which was fed hundreds of snippets from old voicemail messages that had been assigned emotional labels by the researchers. In use, the software looks for the acoustical fingerprint that is closest to the characteristics of the voice message and sends the recipient the corresponding emoticon. It also sends a text message indicating the two best-matching emotional labels.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6845
An interesting point they made was using this to interact with computers.
Finally when I tell my computer to piss off and die as it freezes, it may actually do so.
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Posted: Saturday January 15th, 2005 12:39 |
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@ Black_power
This is all stuff and nonsense really. I don't need no computerised emoticon ditector.
When someone says to me "I am going to rip your throat out and shove your giblets so far up your a** they will cause your eyes to bulge you snivelling b**tard"....I can pretty much read their emotions without the aid of electronic assistance.
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Posted: Saturday January 15th, 2005 13:17 |
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| no wonder people are so out of touch with their emotions
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