February 10, 2005
'Emotive Alerts' on cellphones
This is been written up before, but it's in the news again and is always fun.
Angry on a friend who is too busy to pick up the phone? Just leave a voice message and he will take the hint through an on-screen 'emotica' - a new age technological marvel from MIT, reports India Express via TheFeature.com.
"Emotive Alerts', a pathbreaking research on voicemail systems undertaken by MIT promises to revolutionise the cellular phone technology, where labelling of messages will be possible using a software that identifies the tone of a callers' voice and tags the message as 'urgent', 'happy', 'formal', 'informal' or 'sad', converting them into popular emoticas."
Related articles:
-- Voicemail software recognises callers' emotions - MIT's Emotive Alert's voicemail system labels messages according to the caller's tone of voice and could be helping people identify which messages are urgent.
-- SMS with feeling - BT has developed new technology that takes mobile messaging to a new level where "actual emotions can be conveyed between family and friends in a physical and tactile way"
-- Lie detectors for cellphones - The Truster plugs into a phone - cellular or land-line - or a TV and can spot deceivers, even if they speak a foreign language.
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