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Alexa could become emotionally intelligent

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Alexa could become emotionally intelligent

Amazon issued a patent last week for a new technology that enables Alexa to track consumers’ physical, emotional, and behavioral states. This technology allows Alexa to detect audible cues, such as cough or tone, how the user is feeling, emotionally or physically, and provide responses based on that information.

For example, when a user requests voice recognition, Alexa coughs or sniffles, the assistant can respond by asking if the user wants to order the lounges. Alexa can also use consumer demographic and behavioral information such as age, location, accents, and past search and purchase behavior.

Alexa’s ability to constantly monitor and respond in real-time paves the way for brands to communicate with consumers in a simple way, which helps to increase brand awareness and increase voice purchases. Here’s how:

It exposes users to relevant skills they don’t use. For example, if a user is diagnosed with anxiety through their voice, the voice assistant may suggest an unknown stress relief skill to the user.

This allows Alexa to target consumers with brands related products and information. Alexa can seemingly surface certain products based on consumers ’physical or emotional state at that exact moment, which can increase voice purchases. While Amazon has yet to allow advertising on its voice platform, technology allows users the ability to run targeted ads and promotions based on the emotional and physical condition of their customers, enabling businesses to reach their customers when their products or services are most relevant.

If users are interested, Alexa’s ability to detect cues from voice data can lead to better user experience. Alexa’s active suggestions lend to a highly personalized experience by meeting customers ’real-time emotional and physical needs.

This will lead to more natural conversations with Alexa, as the voice assistant can understand and ask relevant follow-up questions, enhancing the back and forth nature of the voice experience.

However, given the privacy issues surrounding other big tech companies such as Facebook, many users may be inconvenienced by Amazon automatically collecting deeply personal information, which affects the popularity of this feature at any time.

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