emotion detection - {{< nosup >}}[[i](https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/8/27/21402493/amazon-halo-band-health-fitness-body-scan-tone-emotion-activity-sleep?__twitter_impression=true&s=09 "Amazon announces Halo, a fitness band and app that scans your body and voice")]{{< /nosup >}}
distress detection - {{< nosup >}}[[i](sipl.eelabs.technion.ac.il/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2016/12/Paper-DetectionofDistressInSpeech-f.pdf " Detection of Distress in Speech)]{{< /nosup >}}
distress detection - {{< nosup >}}[[i](https://sipl.eelabs.technion.ac.il/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2016/12/Paper-DetectionofDistressInSpeech-f.pdf " Detection of Distress in Speech)]{{< /nosup >}}
intoxication detection {{< nosup >}}[[i](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3872081/ "Intoxicated Speech Detection: A Fusion Framework with Speaker-Normalized Hierarchical Functionals and GMM Supervectors")]{{< /nosup >}} -
machine fault diagnosis - psychosis diagnosis {{< nosup >}}[[i](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190613104552.htm "The whisper of schizophrenia: Machine learning finds 'sound' words predict psychosis")]{{< /nosup >}} -
bird sound identification {{< nosup >}}[[i](https://voicebot.ai/2020/06/26/voice-match-is-for-the-birds-new-google-competition-seeks-avian-audio-ai/ "Voice Match is for the Birds")]{{< /nosup >}} -
gender identification and ethnicity detection {{< nosup >}}[[i](https://theintercept.com/2018/11/15/amazon-echo-voice-recognition-accents-alexa/ "Amazon’s Accent Recognition Technology Could Tell the Government Where You’re From")]{{< /nosup >}} -
age determination -
voice likeability determination -
age determination {{< nosup >}}[[i](https://www.phonexia.com/en/product/age-estimation "Phonexia Age Estimation speech technology automatically estimates the age of a speaker")]{{< /nosup >}} -
voice likability determination {{< nosup >}}[[i](hhttps://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3123266.3123338 "A Paralinguistic Approach To Speaker Diarisation: Using Age, Gender, Voice Likability and Personality Traits")]{{< /nosup >}} -
risk assessment {{< nosup >}}[[i](https://www.clearspeed.com/ "Clearspeed: Using the Power of Voice for Good")]...{{< /nosup >}}
These applications are all either currently in use by states, corporations and other entities around the world, or under development. The list is obviously not exhaustive. Nor does it convey the real diversity of markets, cyberphysical, social and political contexts into which these applications are quickly embedding themselves:
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