“EmoWatch, from Tokyo-based Smartmedical, is an app for the Apple Watch that identifies and tracks users’ emotions through their voice,” Amanda Connolly reports for TNW. “Vocal emotion-recognition isn’t new but the company claims it’s the first time that it is being done through the Apple Watch.”
“The technology it uses is called Empath and it works by analyzing things like the pitch, volume and speed of people’s voices,” Connolly reports. “Through that information, the app can judge a person’s energy levels and depicts whether they are feeling one of four emotions – anger, calmness, joy or sorrow.”
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EmoWatch [US$0.99] offers “a conduit to the Apple Watch, and showing a read-out (in the form of a graph) of your moods throughout the day. And literally nothing else,” Haje Jan Kamps reports for TechCrunch. “If you don’t have an Apple Watch, you’ll be mightily confused, because the iPhone app doesn’t give you the slightest hint about what you’re meant to do.”
“Extreme minimalism didn’t stop me from being absolutely fascinated, however,” Jan Kamps reports. “Of course, Empath isn’t the only horse in this game; Good Vibrations and Beyond Verbal offer similar functionality, but as far as I can tell, neither offer the same real-time feedback loop as the Empath API.”
“On the topic of accuracy — I wasn’t able to test in depth how well the mood analyzing tech actually works, but it generally appears to be roughly in the right ballpark: I felt mildly stressed earlier today, and the app picked up that I was less than chipper,” Jan Kamps reports. “As I’m writing this, I have a bottle of Grapefruit Sculpin, I’m relaxed, listening to some music and writing. And once I hit “publish” on this article, it’s the weekend. No wonder the app reports I’m hunky-dory.”
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MacDailyNews Take: After a bit of brief testing, this thing is more than just a mere mood ring, it actually seems to work!