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Amazon Halo wearable claims to judge emotional state from your voice — experts are skept… – Business Insider – Business Insider
AI experts told Business Insider they doubt Amazon Halo’s algorithm is capable of accurately interpreting the emotion in someone’s voice.

Amazon on Thursday launched Amazon Halo, a wearable band to compete with FitBit and Apple Watch. Like its competitors, Halo can track heart rate and sleep patterns, but it’s also looking to differentiate itself with a peculiar feature: judging your emotional state from your tone of voice.
“Amazon Tone” claims to tell you how you sound to other people. It uses “machine learning to analyze energy and positivity in a customer’s voice so they can better understand how they may sound to others, help…
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