Beyond Verbal

Beyond Verbal is an Israeli start-up company that claims to do Emotion recognition using vocal intonations.[1][2]

Beyond Verbal
Type of businessPrivate
Type of site
Biometrics
Founded2012
Headquarters
Tel Aviv
,
Israel
URLwww.beyondverbal.com

Overview

Beyond Verbal commercializes patented technology from 18 years of research by physicists and neuropsychologists into the mechanisms of human intonations.[3] The company says that its technology enables machines to understand human emotions by analyzing raw voice intonations as people speak. This technology is based on research of over 70,000 subjects in more than 30 different languages, which led to the development of the app that extracts people's moods, attitudes and personality from the intonations of their voice.[4][5][6][7]

History

Dr. Yoram Levanon and neuro-psychologist Dr. Lan Lossos founded the company. The idea for Beyond Verbal came when Levanon began showing interest in how babies – who do not understand a single word – are able to figure out exactly what their caretakers feel toward them, they then studied over 60,000 test subjects in at least 26 languages, and their success in extracting, decoding, and measuring human moods, attitudes, and personalities gave birth to what they call Emotion Analytics.[8]

Milestones
  • 04.2012: Beyond Verbal Communication, Ltd. founded
  • 09.2012: Key IP purchased – Emotions Analytics technology, 17 years of research, 70,000 voices tagged in more than 30 languages, 3 patents
  • 05.2013: First seed investment of $2.8M[9]
  • 06.2013: Launch of Moodies – Emotions Analytics web-based demo app
  • 07.2013: Follow on investment of additional $1 million
  • 09.2013: Launch of Emotions Analytics cloud-based API and first partner sign-up
  • 12.2013: Launch of first third-party solution
  • 01.2014: Launch of mobile Moodies iOS app[10]
  • 06.2014: Partnership With Lieberman Research Worldwide (LRW) to integrate Emotions Analytics technology to enhance market research.[11]

Investors

Funding to date in Beyond Verbal totals $10.8 million. Investors include Singulariteam, Winnovation and The Siegel Group.[12]

References
  1. "In a Mood? Call Center Agents Can Tell". nytimes.com. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  2. "App Tells You How You Feel". wsj.com. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  3. "A look inside Beyond Verbal's developer program". Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  4. "Beyond Verbal knows when 'have a nice day' means 'go to hell'". bizjournals.com. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  5. "To infinity and Beyond Verbal: The Web app revolutionizing the science of voice analysis". digitaltrends.com. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  6. "Beyond Verbal's New App Tells You How Cheating Politicians Really Feel". huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  7. "These Are The Emotions That Your Favorite Movie Robots Feel, According To A Voice Analytics Company". businessinsider.com. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  8. "The Web app revolutionizing the science of voice analysis". www.digitaltrends.com. Retrieved 2019-01-19.
  9. "Beyond Verbal Gets A $2.8M Seed Round To Develop Voice Recognition That Decodes Emotions". techcrunch.com. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  10. "Exclusive: Mood analysis of Apple CEO Tim Cook's speech". fortune.com. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  11. "Lieberman partners with Beyond Verbal". research-live.com. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  12. "Beyond Verbal's emotion-recognition tech could change customer service". fiercemobileit.com. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
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