The Emotion Machine - Rana Gujral, Behavioral Signals

Rana Gujral is the CEO of Behavioral Signals, a company that allows developers to add speech emotion and behavioral recognition AI to their products. We discuss the many reasons why it's important that machines can recognise and express human emotion, including improving human computer interaction and boosting business KPIs. We discover why voice is the best modality for analysing emotion, then highlight some of the many business and consumer use-cases for this technology. Finally we dive into the signal processing pipeline that makes it all work, and Rana shares his advice for working with this technology.This is one of my favourite conversations of the year so far. It's a topic close to my heart, having previously worked on voice emotion transformation in the lab, and I feel it's one of the most important technologies to close the gap between humans and machines. Rana is also a very articulate and inspirational speaker, which makes this an unmissable conversation. Links from the show:Behavioral Signals http://bit.ly/30dcBUlBehavioral Signals Emotional Analytics http://bit.ly/30gw7ziHealthcare Demo Video http://bit.ly/30fiXTfQuentin Furhatino project http://bit.ly/30e9OdKQuentin Furhatino Demo http://bit.ly/30fiLmZTwitter @behaviorsignals Rana Gujral in Inc mag http://bit.ly/30gDLtIHeart of the Machine - Richard Yonck https://amzn.to/30gwh9SCallminer http://bit.ly/30cyG5uTwilio http://bit.ly/30cyovqSponsors:Georgian Partners Impact Podcast https://voicetechpodcast.com/impactpodcast  Manning books: https://www.manning.com 40% off all books code: podvoicetech19 Find us here:WebsiteApple PodcastsSpotifyYouTubeDiscordLinkedInXRedditPatreoncarl@voicetechpodcast.com ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★