Smartphones might soon develop emotional intelligence thanks to team's algorithm for speech-based emotion classification

Tuesday, December 4, 2012 - 04:31 in Mathematics & Economics

If you think having your phone identify the nearest bus stop is cool, wait until it identifies your mood. New research by a team of engineers at the University of Rochester may soon make that possible. At the IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology on Dec. 5, the researchers will describe a new computer program that gauges human feelings through speech, with substantially greater accuracy than existing approaches.

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