Beyond Verbal Unveils 'Empath App'

Tel Aviv, Israel-based emotion analytics specialist Beyond Verbal has introduced 'The Empath App', allowing users to track and analyse their personal emotional wellbeing via their smartphones.

Launched in 2013, with rounds of $2.8m in seed funding and then a further $1m, the firm uses ten-to-fifteen second clips of speech, analyses voice modulation, and seeks specific patterns in the way people talk, in order to understand emotions like anger, anxiety, happiness and satisfaction. The proprietary software then picks up nuances in mood, attitude and decision-making characteristics.

In September, the firm >raised $3.3m in new funding, simultaneously launching the Beyond Wellness API, to enable app developers and wearable device makers to add emotion sensing capabilities to their offerings. Based on the Wellness API, the new Empath uses a smartphone to measure emotions and moods. When a user speaks into a phone, regardless of language, Empath identifies how they felt during an activity, or according to a specific time of day, and then tracks, logs and charts their emotions.

According to the firm, over the course of numerous outings, the tool determines the varying emotional effects of daily activities - such as running - and tracks mood shifts according to the time or day of the run. CEO Yuval Mor (pictured) comments: 'Empath provides users with a way to monitor and measure their emotional state, as well as a means to track it over time. Now, users can spot trends in their mood that they may otherwise overlook and better identify and monitor how different activities affect them.'

Web site: www.beyondverbal.com .