AI Startups Claim to Detect Depression From Speech

The jury's out on the accuracy of AI startups that claim to detect depression from speech, but they've raised $26 million in series A founding. "I don't get the sense that people will never want to interact with human beings right now given where she has eyes and the peak hours of usage," says David Bianculli. But compared to the status quo, it's possible that this is filling a great need that we have nowadays, he adds.