Software helps you stop being a jerk
Are you a jerk on the phone? You might want to be a bit nicer the next time you take that call.
That’s because there’s new technology coming out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology called the “Jerk-O-Meter.” The software measures stress levels in your voice and rates you on a scale of zero to 100 to let you know just how annoying you might be sounding.Project leader Anmol Madan, a Ph.D. candidate at the MIT Media Lab, said his wife came up with the product name as they were discussing his research on using speech patterns to measure interest in conversations.
The result is speech software that measures vocal activity and stress during a call and then translates that into a couple of actions. The group is also working on better reading empathy.
“The value that comes from this technology that you can build machines and computers that gauge when people are….
source: news.com