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Researchers Propose Neural Network To Assess Your State of Mind From Your Voice (thestack.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Researchers in Australia have proposed a system to analyse a user's voice and recognise how they are feeling, long term. The system uses a Deep Neural Network (DNN) to compare the user's tone of voice to those that he or she is talking to, in order to build up long-term data about potential cyclic changes in mood, rather than attempting to recognise whether someone is happy or sad in a particular moment.
Gotta work on my Nicholson imitation.
Have gnu, will travel.
I already know I'm homicidal 24x7...
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
So when does this all get sold to advertisers? No one is naive enough to think that isn't the endgame, right?
THIS LEASH DEMEANS US BOTH
Soon we'll have this programmed into vending machines. Imagine the possibilities! A vending machine that can discern when you feel like a nut, and when you don't. Or that tells you how angry you get when you're hungry, and offers a Snickers bar.
The next thing you know, they'll come up with a way to determine my age from what percentage of the day I'm grumpy. Which reminds me..."YOU KIDS GET OUTTA MY YARD!"
(Is it nap time yet?)
If management wants to know how I honestly feel, all they have to do is ask.
Table-ized A.I.
Is anyone else thinking, "The Men Who Stare at Goats"?
Who always talk in a monotone voice, so our state of mind can't be determined.
Don't come the raw prawn with me .. you know things ain't gonna be bonzer if you think I've a few roo's loose in the top paddock. It's just that I've been flat out like lizard drinking and only want a bit of a chinwag and maybe four'n'twenty or a chico roll. But if I can't get me another ice cold Vic after all my hard yakka then I'm gonna get all stroppy and call up my dear ol' Aunty Jack. I don't know how that big black bike of her's is running these days, but stone the crows if she doesn't spit the dummy and rip someone's bloody arm off - especially if it's some septic dill who doesn't have a clue about what's daggy and what's not true blue. Man I'd love to have a captain's at that! It'd be the best fun this side of the black stump. BTW you interested in kicking in for a slab or two? I'm headed for the drive through and wanted to pick up some extra tinnies for the arvo. I was going to catch lift with another mate but that drongo pranged yesterday. He was so dead set to fang out that the stupid galah took a sickie and was hooning around like some yobbo and almost ended up under a semi. He had to chuck a quick uey and shoot through before the boys in blue got there . When his missus found out she went so troppo 'cause the rego hasn't been paid yet. Last I heard he went bush and was grousing about not having a brass razzoo to his name. But even blind freddy can tell you that bludger has buckley's of getting flush . He'd rather flake out with his esky than give anything a burl. Anyway I'm bushed now, so I'm goin' to quit yarning and find a ripper spot for my swag that's not within cooee of my boss cocky. And don't worry about those slabs .. if I have any more right now I'm going to cark it. Just don't dob me in to where I've gone walkabout.
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when I forget my meds.....
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
I can see it now. After 90 minutes to check in and a breakdown of the scanner at security, the TSA agent informs you that the audio analyzer detected you being agitated and, for safety reasons, they will not allow you to fly.
They always seems to know when I call them after enjoying some cannabis and also exactly what I want to order.
We now have 2-voiced. ......somewhere is a joke about a monkey with 2 asses.
Tech like RNM can stablize moods thus it won't be reflected in a person's voice.
Maybe they could use this kind of technology on VRU systems and find out how much customers actually hate them, or Comcast could run the program and listen to me cursing under my breath while I wait on hold for 'an available operator' to come on and screw me over...
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
How are you feeling? Maybe you shouldn't be making a 'system' to discern how people are feeling and instead ponder whether they want you to know or not. Can someone please make a global/universal big data opt out? Where do we draw the line of what is the human experience and what is going against it?
I hear that you've been feelin' down. Well, I can ease your pain. Get you on your feet again.
I can see it now, the spooks will enforce audio bug implants. Then they will implement the new preventative criminal/terrorist detection and detention scheme. Finally a perfected crime prevention solution.
or get a voice box like Hawkin.
First this. Then implants than detect and report dangerous thoughts. And finally implants that can modify or plant new thoughts. For your own good of course.
Imagine a computer that uses voice recognition to gain access, but also determines from the sound of your voice if you are under any kind of duress, and so voice recognition will fail. Even in regions where one might be sent to jail for not giving law enforcement access to your devices until they cooperate, if you showed them that you could not access your system on demand, could they also throw you in jail for refusing too to grant them access without feeling like you were being forced to?
I am restricting this conjecture to nations that otherwise have relatively decent justice systems, but have been perhaps driven by some recent events into a state where they might hide behind the notion that trying to catch certain types of people that are really dangerous, such as terrorists or pedophiles, carries far more weight than allowing people to have any privacy.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
Speech researchers have been doing this for decades -- see many papers from Interspeech and ICASSP conferences. (Though presumably this lot can afford a bigger parallel/GPU computer to run their neural net on than last year's lot).
everybody with their own pet project, oh, mood recognition, oh speech recognition, oh, visual recognition.
eventually you get to the point where the only piece missing from a functional AI is the consolidation of all these bits and bobs.