Beyond Verbal announces Wellness API, raises an additional $3.3M

Beyond Verbal announces Wellness API, raises an additional $3.3M

Beyond Verbal, the world’s Emotions Analytics leader, announced a new cloud-based Wellness API for developers of wellness and fitness solutions to create emotionally-aware apps, devices and services. Moreover, the company has also announced raising an additional $3.3 million in funding in a round led by Winnovation and SingulariTeam.

Using nothing but human voice, the Beyond Wellness API turns a smartphone, microphone-equipped wearable device or app into a sensor that discovers and proactively tracks emotional wellbeing over time and in correlation with different lifestyle activities or events.

Using nothing but human voice, the Beyond Wellness API turns a smartphone, microphone-equipped wearable device or app into a sensor.Until now, emotions discovery and tracking have been largely limited to users self-logging and subjectively reporting their perceived emotions. With the Beyond Wellness API, emotional discovery is instantly available in a more insightful, objective, scalable and scientific way. This new technology can be used to spot trends in the change of people’s overall emotional state and can be correlated with daily activities, lifestyle choices, fitness and more.

The company’s technology is based on 19 years of research, hundreds of thousands of emotionally-tagged voices in over 30 languages, and five granted patents. It [technology] decodes and measures moods, attitudes and decision-making traits based on the underlying emotions that are carried through the sound of the human voice.

Beyond Verbal launched in May 2013 and has raised over $7 million to date.