Emotional development: Amazon's latest gadget plan

Designed to work with a smartphone app, the device has microphones paired with software that can discern the wearer’s emotional state from the sound of his or her voice, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg

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Amazon is developing a voice-activated wearable device that can recognise human emotions. The wrist-worn gadget is described as a health and wellness product in internal documents reviewed by Bloomberg.

It’s a collaboration between Lab126, the hardware development group behind Amazon’s Fire phone andEcho smart speaker, andthe Alexa voice software team.

Designed to work with a smartphone app, the device has microphones paired with software that can discern the wearer’s emotional state from the ...