Cell Phones Can Hear Depression in People’s Voices
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Re: Cell Phones Can Hear Depression in People’s Voices
#2Someone please make an app that makes psychiatric analysis based on voice! I can think of a million uses, from tracking my own mood to secretly diagnosing my co-workers.
Re: Cell Phones Can Hear Depression in People’s Voices
#3Someone please make an app that makes psychiatric analysis based on voice! I can think of a million uses, from tracking my own mood to secretly diagnosing my co-workers.
>Psychiatric analysis based on voice
The benefits of this when implemented correctly nonwithstanding, there's a major problem in that any implementation is highly likely to be quite flawed. See the proliferation of "health-tracking" apps that are basically quackery. With psychiatric analysis --- where the signals to track are much weakly defined than heart rate, blood pressure, etc. --- it is far too likely that apps will consistently make poor diagnoses, to the detriment of the user.
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#4I wonder if we'll start to see the NSA doing targeting based on psychological state detected by their voice recordings. Maybe it's already happening.
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#5What if I'm in a good mood and the NSA believes I'm a maniac just because a telemarketer cold-called me?
Re: Cell Phones Can Hear Depression in People’s Voices
#6Someone please make an app that makes psychiatric analysis based on voice! I can think of a million uses, from tracking my own mood to secretly diagnosing my co-workers.
>to secretly diagnosing my co-workers.
Interesting that you explicitly mention you'd do it without their knowledge/consent...
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#7I totally need this...having suffered from several manic episodes that usually ramp up over a period of a month or two before I become straight up psychotic, completely lost. It would change my life to be able to check in with my psychiatrist after several alerts, rather than when I get to the point that I need to be admitted. its also not the type of message that friends and family like to give.
Re: Cell Phones Can Hear Depression in People’s Voices
#8"Cell phones can do X" is so link-baity. This is really "microphones + signal analysis can hear depression in people's voices."
Re: Cell Phones Can Hear Depression in People’s Voices
#9Someone please make an app that makes psychiatric analysis based on voice! I can think of a million uses, from tracking my own mood to secretly diagnosing my co-workers.
>to secretly diagnosing my co-workers. Interesting that you explicitly mention you'd do it without their knowledge/consent...
Any sort of learned tells from human psychology could be extended on that principle then.
Re: Cell Phones Can Hear Depression in People’s Voices
#10"Cell phones can do X" is so link-baity. This is really "microphones + signal analysis can hear depression in people's voices."
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