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New smart phone app to read your mood

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Less than 10 years ago, every school girl in the playground had these little toys called mood rings – plastic jewellery that usually came with a book order and would change colour depending on the wearer’s mood, or body temperature.But even that is now digitised.Xpressions, an app developed by British firm EI Technologies, is a new technology that lets smart phones track and decipher their owners’ moods through speech patterns.Aiming for the treatment of anxiety, depression and stress, the app was designed to provide a more objective and reliable record of patients’ emotions rather than relying on subjective mood diaries, EI Technologies founder Matt Dobson told CNN.The app would be able to recognise the user’s voice throughout the day or during a phone call, track its acoustic features (not the content), detect the anger, happiness and sadness within and generate a mood log at the end of the day."I wanted to know: could we bring something into the market that would help people sort out their stress and depression and anxiety? ... I found that voice-based recognition was something that would work on a smart phone,” Dobson said."This replaces that old technology. This is the turbo-charged version of manually recording your emotions.”The iOS and Android versions will debut sometime late this year.

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