Israeli-made Moodies, named best iPhone app of 2014, extracts a person’s full set of emotions and character traits as they speak.
By Abigail Klein Leichman July 17, 2014
Ever notice how a baby seems to catch your meaning without understanding the words you say? Or how your dog accurately assesses your state of mind from your tone of voice?
The founders of Israel’s Beyond Verbal noticed that too, and in 1995 they started researching how vocal oscillations – and not just body language — convey so much about the speaker.
A year ago, the company released its first product, an iOS app called Moodies, to help people gauge what the voices of their customers, job applicants, patients – and even themselves – reveal about their emotional status.
The app extracts, decodes and measures human emotions from raw voice in real time based on about 20 seconds of speech in any language.
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