detecting emotions and maybe something else in voice

[Xtinct]

Well, a couple of decades ago it was impossible to separate individual notes from, say, a recorded piano chord. Then came Melodyne (and others) and the impossible became possible. It´s just a matter of figuring out how it can be done, and if we have enough CPU power to do it in some practical way.

What I meant was if no one can build an accurate lie detector based on voice stress analysis (with I'm sure a lot of government money and cpu power) at the moment how far off is being able to tell if they are happy or sad about lying. Yes Melodyne can pick a note out of a chord but it wasn't built with FS. On the other hand as I said analysing a voice and using it to modulate parameters would be very interesting.

[Nubeat7]

interesting how the idea of emotional recognation of spoken voice ends up in proper action against a person and waterboarding - just hope MH gets no waterboarding victim now ...

beside that, recognition of voice is still a big deal for the big boys in science (grammar, how you build a sentence, slang, hoarseness..) there are a lot of situations where existing stuff still fails - and thats just the recognitaion of commands for your computersystem

now ask your computer if you cry because of happiness or sadness, or if its serious or cynism,... to get proper results from speech a computer would need to understand the context of a conversation including actual cultural customs of communication... i think you would get more proper results with other values like blood pressure, pulse speed, eye movement, ear temperature.....

[tester]

Generally this is related not only to emotions. First of all - it does not have to be a "lie detector" (or detector of specific named feelings you have right now), but rather a detector of ongoing emotional and mood patterns in reaction to stimuli. Second - the whole thing has several applications in health and diagnosis. Third - health and diagnosis are usually strictly related to emotional patterns.

[Attic]

Tester just hit Mad Scientist status in my book. Now where is lesobrod from the old SM forum when you need him. He would have a couple ideas for this one. Your thoughts are on the edge of madness, be carefull!

Large companies such as AT&T have put phone help systems in place that detect if the user is swearing at the cue robot. The software then bumps that user up the call list so they don't wait as long. I tend to always swear on these calls so I get bumped up the cue at a more rapid pace.

You could probably teach this some swear words http://www.mikroe.com/click/speakup/ Flowstone works with the PIC Clicker board from MikroElektonika. So maybe this would work? If you get this to work, I could use a collar for my 14 year old boy that shocks him any time he decides to swear.

I wonder if you could make a dog bark translator with that board ... hmmm

[tester]

Hehe, these are simple and ordinary things among things I usually do. Mad science is so soft and gentle...

As for bark translator, I saw better thing. EEG translator for dogs. Dog wants, TTS speaks. Maybe barking is too ambiguous (although elephants have a low pitched "word" for "run - it's human!").