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Automated 'coach' could help with social interactions (web.mit.edu)
1 point by mcx on June 16, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Paper: http://web.media.mit.edu/~mehoque/Publications/13.Hoque-etal...

I found the choices of software particularly interesting:

"Prosody Analysis: ... To extract prosodic features, we developed an application programming interface (API) using the low level signal processing algorithms included in the Praat [praat.org], an open source speech processing toolkit."

"Speech Recognition: For real time speech recognition, we used the Nuance speech recognition software development kit (SDK). ..."




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