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Video Blog 2015 November Can Your Voice Predict Your Chances for Divorce?
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Can Your Voice Predict Your Chances for Divorce?

Posted By The Graves Law Firm || 30-Nov-2015

According to a research paper published in the Proceedings of Interspeech, the journal of the International Speech Communication Association, a new computer algorithm can tell how likely you are to divorce your spouse… from the tone of your voice.

In fact, the algorithm — which was correct 79% of the time — was more accurate than session notes provided by therapists, when predicting marital success of couples with serious relationship issues. Invented by University of Southern California researchers, the algorithm was based on hundreds of conversations from 134 couples taken during marriage counseling sessions over two years.

The algorithm broke the conversations down, using speech processing technology, into its acoustic characteristics - volume, pitch, intensity, jitter and shimmer, which can measure whether someone's voice is shaking or warbling, perhaps due to emotion. These features were then tracked across a single therapy session, as well as across multiple sessions to model the pattern of emotional changes that couples go through.

"What you say is not the only thing that matters; it's very important how you say it. Our study confirms that it holds for a couple's relationship as well," USC researcher MD Nasir said.

For more: Voice tone can predict your divorce risk (Times of India)

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