Helping machines understand emotion
IBM Patents 4/4 – Helping machines understand emotion
IBM’s Patent No. 9117446 detects and assigns emotion to text in TTS (text to speech) applications, so machines can read and express emotion in response to what we say, how we say it, our facial expressions and body language.
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For 23 years now, IBM has held the most patents out of any company.
I was asked to create a serie of 4 gifs for IBMblr (IBM Tumblr page), to highlight a few of the more innovative patents from the past year, and representing them in a fun way.