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Amazon has announced Halo, a combination subscription service, app, and fitness wearable that promises to use some of the same technology the company developed for Alexa to add a new dimension to personal health tracking—tone of voice.The product's announcement copy makes the case that "strong social connections are just as important to long-term health as adequate sleep, being fit, having a good diet, or even not smoking."Further ReadingAmazon patents Alexa tech to tell if you’re sick, depressed and sell you medsUsing machine-learning-driven speech processing, the device intermittently records your voice and analyzes its tempo, rhythm, pitch, and intensity to make judgments about "the positivity and energy of your voice" where "positivity is measured by how happy or sad you sound, and energy is how excited or tired you sound."The app gives you daily summaries of how you sounded throughout the day. The app is available on both iOS and Android.Amazon hedges in its press release that the above pricing is specific to the early-access period, but the company doesn't say how much it will cost once it leaves early access, or when that will happen.Listing image by AmazonYou must login or create an account to comment.Join the Ars Orbital Transmission mailing list to get weekly updates delivered to your inbox.
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