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Ty l e r Br yde n wa n ts to h elp peo ple live ha ppie r a nd h ealth ier lives. Tyler Bryden, the owner of Speak Ai, first started working with artificial intelligence (AI) to help companies improve marketing and analytics. But, he’s deeply interested in how this technology can be used to help people live happier and healthier lives. Before he even graduated from Fanshawe’s Interactive Media Design and Production program in 2016, Tyler had launched a marketing and communications company, SixFive. “I was developing websites but I didn’t understand how to drive users to the site or measure the success of that work,” he says. “So, I started to focus on marketing and analytics.” Interacting with data gave Tyler insights into the value of using AI to extract meaningful information from audio, video and text. Currently, Tyler is focused on helping customers capture, analyze and share media with an intuitive software platform. Some users are harnessing Speak Technology for marketing to transcribe podcasts and generate more interactive, accessible and optimized content. Other users are researchers analyzing large amounts of data to identify key information quickly and efficiently. Tyler is particularly interested in emotion analysis and continues to improve the company’s system. “We are developing a holistic approach, using speech and video analysis not just to track keywords and phrases, but also to look at the acoustics of voice and facial expressions,” says Tyler. A N N U A L _
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Tyler is interested in exploring how this technology can be used to help people improve their well-being. He has had his own past struggles with depression and during that time he used journaling to help in his recovery. There are AI applications that he feels are valuable as long as they are sensitive to an individual’s privacy, he says.
