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Why Should You Use this Voice App?
Lifestyle: Getting to Know Yourself Better
(1) Get involved and learn more about the complex interplay between body and mind under high
levels of stress caused, for example, by modern work conditions or by tight schedules and
frequent examinations in college.
(2) Learn more about your affects, the evolutionarily very old processes deep inside your body.
Affects such as aggression, fear, anger, happiness, sadness, grief, or love, can be triggered
by internal and external events, and are often accompanied by bodily reactions, such as
sweat, rapidly increased blood pressure, increased heart rate, or dizziness.
(3) Learn how regular voice recordings can improve your coping behavior under stress, so that you
feel pretty comfortable, for example, when speaking in public such that mean vocal pitch
doesnt go up by a halftone or so.
Subjects at Risk of Mood Disturbances
(4) Get involved and learn how low mood reduces the dynamic expressiveness of your voice and how
your voice sounds when it regains energy, vivacity and spiritedness.
(5) Find out how helpful it is to go for a 20-minute walk, to ride a bicycle, or to do sports.
(6) And best of all: getting involved on a routine basis is a great remedy to better cope with the
ups and downs of real life.
Philanthropy
You may want to upload your voice recordings to our server in a strictly anonymous way and to
share your data with the research community, thus helping to further improve this "voice app".
Voice App Manual: Instructions for Use
The "voice app" has been tested extensively by 120 students. In the sense of biofeedback,
it provides directly interpretable results when (1) monitoring general health and
well-being; (2) monitoring the effects of chronic stress; or (3) monitoring the risk of
depression and doing something about
[cf. Google Play Store]
— see our scientific article.
Fig. 15: We have developed a "voice app" for the analysis of speaking behavior and voice
sound characteristics as a function of time and in a language-independent way. This
easy-to-use "voice app" is currently available for Laptops, Tablets, and Smartphones under
Windows and Android [see "Voice App" Manual for details].
The iPhone version is in preparation.
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