Voice Data and the Brain
Voice Data and the Brain
H/T David Amerland
Early detection of three progressive diseases through voice data.
Dementia
Alzheimer's
Parkinson's
Worth the read!
Originally shared by David Amerland
Reading All the Data
We really are all data. The fingers typing this out are powered by a brain that is guided by electrochemical responses. Sentences I type, the diction I use - even the structure and formation of my paragraphs indicate whether I am fired up, excited about something, my pulse slightly racing, my vision narrowed, disparate brain centers firing up in a cacophony of connections vying for a workable model that my fingers can bring to life on the screen or ... I am ice cold, my brain singing coolly like a well-tuned machine, the arguments that appear on the screen supremely logical, the examples engaging, my mind focused not just on what I am saying but also in a complex 3D-chess like visualization that feels what the reader will feel and think when they read what I write which then makes it imperative that I choose each word with care so that it can have the desired effect.
To date, of course, all that data is lost. There is nothing to capture it, it cannot yet be accurately read. My laptop keyboard (unlike my phone) is a dumb one. It doesn't capture the patterns that reveal the urgency of my mental condition.
Consider our voice. A tiny organ controlled by muscles (https://goo.gl/2l4Lhe) that are subject to our emotional and mental states. Unlike my typing, the increase in voice capture devices and voice-controlled (and activated) devices - https://goo.gl/fTll1P, provides a handy way to capture the data.
Machine learning algorithms are sensitive enough to actually read it and, more to the point, understand it. Alzheimer's, dementia and Parkinson's can, apparently, be diagnosed long before they make themselves felt, which is logical when you think about it. They always have to start somewhere small before they become symptomatic enough to be noticed.
In marketing, we can learn to read the emotional state of customers long before they start shouting and, in what may be the initial stages of the Bene Gesserit use of Voice (https://goo.gl/NmVMKE), we can counter it to produce the desired effect. :D
Like in so many other things, the moment we have a picture of how our voice works, what it reveals and what impact it can have we also have a means to train it and modulate it to have the effect we want.
When all data is captured there is a question of privacy we are not yet addressing and the later we leave it to discuss the harder it is going to be because we will be unwilling to sacrifice the functionality of the tools we find to be so useful. Welcome to the 21st century. No one said it's going to be easy :)
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38637257
H/T David Amerland
Early detection of three progressive diseases through voice data.
Dementia
Alzheimer's
Parkinson's
Worth the read!
Originally shared by David Amerland
Reading All the Data
We really are all data. The fingers typing this out are powered by a brain that is guided by electrochemical responses. Sentences I type, the diction I use - even the structure and formation of my paragraphs indicate whether I am fired up, excited about something, my pulse slightly racing, my vision narrowed, disparate brain centers firing up in a cacophony of connections vying for a workable model that my fingers can bring to life on the screen or ... I am ice cold, my brain singing coolly like a well-tuned machine, the arguments that appear on the screen supremely logical, the examples engaging, my mind focused not just on what I am saying but also in a complex 3D-chess like visualization that feels what the reader will feel and think when they read what I write which then makes it imperative that I choose each word with care so that it can have the desired effect.
To date, of course, all that data is lost. There is nothing to capture it, it cannot yet be accurately read. My laptop keyboard (unlike my phone) is a dumb one. It doesn't capture the patterns that reveal the urgency of my mental condition.
Consider our voice. A tiny organ controlled by muscles (https://goo.gl/2l4Lhe) that are subject to our emotional and mental states. Unlike my typing, the increase in voice capture devices and voice-controlled (and activated) devices - https://goo.gl/fTll1P, provides a handy way to capture the data.
Machine learning algorithms are sensitive enough to actually read it and, more to the point, understand it. Alzheimer's, dementia and Parkinson's can, apparently, be diagnosed long before they make themselves felt, which is logical when you think about it. They always have to start somewhere small before they become symptomatic enough to be noticed.
In marketing, we can learn to read the emotional state of customers long before they start shouting and, in what may be the initial stages of the Bene Gesserit use of Voice (https://goo.gl/NmVMKE), we can counter it to produce the desired effect. :D
Like in so many other things, the moment we have a picture of how our voice works, what it reveals and what impact it can have we also have a means to train it and modulate it to have the effect we want.
When all data is captured there is a question of privacy we are not yet addressing and the later we leave it to discuss the harder it is going to be because we will be unwilling to sacrifice the functionality of the tools we find to be so useful. Welcome to the 21st century. No one said it's going to be easy :)
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38637257
With out even reading this I believe it can Like the old adage of "He/or she don't sound so good these days"
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