Thursday, September 08, 2005

"Jerk-O-Meter" Measures Phone Rudeness

"Jerk-O-Meter" Measures Phone Rudeness: "'Jerk-O-Meter' Measures Phone Rudeness
Brian Handwerk
for National Geographic News
September 7, 2005

People know when they're on the phone with an inattentive jerk, but they might not realize how they sound to others. A new telephone technology, dubbed the Jerk-O-Meter, could help.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology media lab researchers have created a device that analyzes psychological cues in the human voice to rate a speaker's interest in the conversation they're having."

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