Hello,
Does anyone want to share / rent a very cool wearble personal speech
analysis tool?
I want to buy the LENA device it is a very cool 24-7 wearable language
tracking and analysis system. It’s a big data / QS persons dream!
(See http://www.lenafoundation.org,
http://www.lenafoundation.org/ProSystem/Overview.aspx,
http://quantifiedself.com/2008/02/starting-the-life-log-early-th/ etc)
Trying to guage level of interest is anyone like to share it with me?
Or rent it from me?
LENA is primary intended for analyzing child development. However, there are a variety of reasons I believe it can be useful for adults as well as children. John Hanson http://www.utdallas.edu/~john.hansen/ has been known to wear it for his own personal use. He is a prof at UT Dallas and I’ve met him (while he was wearing the device) at the LENA conference. I can explain the technical details if there is interest.
I want the researcher version (not the dumbed down parent version).
This device can help track my one-year old daughter’s upcoming
language explosion. As I said it can also track adult language with
some caveats.
It is also quite expensive. About $1800 for 1 year. $8000 perpetual
license.
I am considering buying the device for one year and renting it out to
people in the QS community.
In sum, I really want to use the LENA device to quantify my daughter’s
language development and to track my own lanugage. Does anyone want
to share such or rent such a device?
Thanks,
Bill
p.s. ROUGHLY SPEAKING TECHNCIAL DETAILS: for each one of an unlimited
number of accounts, it is tuned to a particular child and can
distinguish that child from other child, male adult, female adult,
background noise). It tracks language on a variety of dimensions,
e.g. number of conversational turns by speaker type, number of words
spoke by speaker type and more. It automatically segments speech by
speaker type. There are a growing number of academic users who are
writing papers. A Stanford researcher made headlines in the last 3-6
months as I recall.
