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- Patent Title: Deriving geographic distribution of physiological or psychological conditions of human speakers while preserving personal privacy
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Application No.: US13459274Application Date: 2012-04-30
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Publication No.: US08498869B2Publication Date: 2013-07-30
- Inventor: Slava Shechtman , Raphael Steinberg
- Applicant: Slava Shechtman , Raphael Steinberg
- Applicant Address: US MA Burlington
- Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Burlington
- Agency: Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.
- Main IPC: G10L21/00
- IPC: G10L21/00 ; H04K1/00 ; A61B5/00

Abstract:
A method including: obtaining, via a plurality of communication devices, a plurality of speech signals respectively associated with human speakers, the speech signals including verbal components and non-verbal components; identifying a plurality of geographical locations, each geographic location associated with a respective one of the plurality of the communication devices; extracting the non-verbal components from the obtained speech signals; deducing physiological or psychological conditions of the human speakers by analyzing, over a specified period, the extracted non-verbal components, using predefined relations between characteristics of the non-verbal components and physiological or psychological conditions of the human speakers; and providing a geographical distribution of the deduced physiological or psychological conditions of the human speakers by associating the deduced physiological or psychological conditions of the human speakers with geographical locations thereof.
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