Category: emotions

Alexa can now sound excited or disappointed

Post author By Randall
Post date November 27, 2019
Categories In alexa, Amazon, emotions, gear, Home, Tech

[ad_1] Alexa’s ability to convey emotions is powered by Amazons’ Neural Text-to-Speech technology, and the company says “overall satisfaction with the voice experience increased by 30 percent when Alexa responded with emotions.” We guess the testers found it much more pleasing to interact with a voice AI that that doesn’t sound monotonous. By the way, […]

Brain-controlled VR lightshows could lull you to sleep

Post author By Randall
Post date July 26, 2019
Categories In Art, betty sargeant, brain waves, brainwaves, color, Design, eeg, emotions, gear, headset, insomnia, inter-dream, justin dwyer, kaleidoscope, medicine, meditation, mental health, nathan semertzidis, neurofeedback, neuroscience, pluginhuman, rmit, rmit university, Sleep, Tech, tomorrow, Virtual Reality, visualization, visuals, vr, Wearables

[ad_1] Inter-Dream assigns different colors and properties to different brainwaves, and since brainwaves are always changing, the visuals and colors change, too. The result is a constantly moving, mirage of colors, shapes and patterns. More active brainwaves are associated with more active displays. The idea is that people whose minds are more active just before […]