The wearable reportedly uses microphones and software to recognize emotions from a person’s voice.
Researchers at technology giant Amazon are reportedly working on a wearable device that will be able to recognize human emotions from a voice.
The publication said the project was currently code named Dylan, but it remained unclear when, or if, it will be made available. The tech appeared to be similar to a 2017 patent that emerged last year demonstrating how a voice assistant could respond to vocal cues of a user. A diagram depicted a human coughing and Alexa offering to order cough drops with a quick delivery.
He wrote: “A person’s tone of voice can tell you a lot about how they’re feeling. Not surprisingly, emotion recognition is an increasingly popular conversational-AI research topic.
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