Amazon is developing a voice-activated wearable device that can recognise human emotions, according to reports from Bloomberg.
The wrist-worn gadget is a collaboration between Lab126, the
hardware development group behind Amazon’s Fire phone and Echo
smart speaker, and the Alexa voice software team.
Designed to
work with a smartphone app, the device has microphones
paired with software that can discern the wearer’s emotional state
from the sound of his or her voice, according
to the documents and a person familiar with the program.
Eventually the technology could be able to advise the
wearer how to interact more effectively with others, the documents show.