Automated 'coach' could help with social interactions(web.mit.edu)
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Automated 'coach' could help with social interactions
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/automated-coach-could-help-with-social-interactions-0614.html
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/automated-coach-could-help-with-social-interactions-0614.html
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). ..."