{"id":95312,"date":"2019-08-26T12:02:39","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T19:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/researchers-created-ai-that-hides-your-emotions-from-other-ai"},"modified":"2019-08-26T12:02:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T19:02:39","slug":"researchers-created-ai-that-hides-your-emotions-from-other-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/researchers-created-ai-that-hides-your-emotions-from-other-ai","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Created AI That Hides Your Emotions From Other AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-created-ai-that-hides-your-emotions-from-other-ai2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Humans can communicate a range of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/8xy5qa\/this-interactive-map-of-human-emotion-sounds\" target=\"_blank\">nonverbal emotions<\/a>, from terrified shrieks to exasperated groans. Voice inflections and cues can communicate subtle feelings, from ecstasy to agony, arousal and disgust. Even when simply speaking, the human voice is stuffed with meaning, and a lot of potential value if you\u2019re a company collecting personal data.<\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers at the Imperial College London have used AI to mask the emotional cues in users\u2019 voices when they\u2019re speaking to internet-connected voice assistants. The idea is to put a \u201clayer\u201d between the user and the cloud their data is uploaded to by automatically converting emotional speech into \u201cnormal\u201d speech. They recently published their paper \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1908.03632\" target=\"_blank\">Emotionless: Privacy-Preserving Speech Analysis for Voice Assistants<\/a>\u201d on the arXiv preprint server.<\/p>\n<p>Our voices can reveal our confidence and stress levels, physical condition, age, gender, and personal traits. This isn\u2019t lost on smart speaker makers, and companies such as Amazon are always working to improve the <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2019\/05\/21\/amazons-ai-improves-emotion-detection-in-voices\/\" target=\"_blank\">emotion-detecting abilities of AI<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans can communicate a range of nonverbal emotions, from terrified shrieks to exasperated groans. Voice inflections and cues can communicate subtle feelings, from ecstasy to agony, arousal and disgust. Even when simply speaking, the human voice is stuffed with meaning, and a lot of potential value if you\u2019re a company collecting personal data. Now, researchers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}