Chalk up another win for computers. Software developed at the University of Rochester in New York has outstripped humans in its ability to identify emotions in speech. The researchers plan to use it to understand the effects of emotion in parent-child interactions.
The software, developed by Rochester graduate students Na Yang and Emre Eskimez, is not the first to recognise the feelings behind human utterances, but it is the first to outstrip humans in a robust comparison.
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