Phone application tracking patients with depression

Can automatically save the day of depression patients to help psychologists give appropriate treatment direction is a special feature of a smartphone application called Xpression.

The Xpression application will be useful for mind centers
Treatment in the case of depression.

Xpression is the "biological child" of Matt Dobson and Duncan Barclay, the founders of EI Technologies, a UK-based voice recognition company. Instead of what the patient shows up in the log, the Xpression application will pick up changes in the object's voice, such as the intensity of the sound.

Next, Xpression sends these audio snippets to a server, which will analyze the state of the object before sending the result back to the Xpression storage application. Elements such as tone, tension, change in intensity and speed of speech allow the system to accurately estimate the emotions of the subject and indicate one of five states: calm, happiness, sadness , angry and anxious.

To work effectively and really help the doctor during treatment, the application must always be turned on to continuously monitor the voice of the employer when they talk face to face or over the phone with relatives or friends. , colleagues, even their pets. It is expected that clinical trials of depression based on Xpression will be conducted by the end of this year.