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'Emotion AI': Boston Startup Works To Make Tech Devices More Emotionally Intelligent05:38
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September 15, 2017

Asma Khalid

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Affectiva, a Boston-based artificial intelligence startup spun out of MIT media lab, has created a way to measure emotion in speech in an effort to make technological devices better understand human emotions.

Affectiva CEO Rana el Kaliouby spoke with WBUR's Asma Khalid about her company's work.

This segment aired on September 15, 2017.

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