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General Science => General Science => Topic started by: thedoc on 13/12/2011 17:51:00

Title: Do speech patterns reveal anymore than handwriting styles?
Post by: thedoc on 13/12/2011 17:51:00

All these data analysis are very well but really, is it any more complicated than just hand writing analysis gone bonkers?  Is this really meaningful?
Asked by Tina Valerin in Norwich


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Title: Do speech patterns reveal anymore than handwriting styles?
Post by: thedoc on 13/12/2011 17:51:00

We answered this question on the show...



Jason -   In the case of detecting emotions from speech, this is a very well established line of research and we can ask individuals how they're feeling and we can use other sorts of methods to assess emotions.  Essentially, what we are doing are identifying speech cues that are valid indicators of people’s psychological states.  And so, in that sense, I think it’s a perfectly valid and robust method.