What's New
ResourceMarch 30, 2026
New Whitepaper: The Science Behind the Expression Fingerprint
We just published our fourth whitepaper: "The Science Behind the Expression Fingerprint: How ReadingMinds Detects and Scores Emotion in Voice."
What It Covers
Most voice analytics tools reduce expression to positive, negative, or neutral. That simplification loses most of the signal. This technical backgrounder explains the two-layer architecture that powers the ReadingMinds Expression Fingerprint:
- Layer 1, Signal Extraction: Three parallel models (prosody, language, non-verbal) process every conversational turn.
- Layer 2, Classification Engine: A gradient-boosted tree classifier selects one of six expression tags; a per-label regressor scores intensity from 1 to 9.
- Six-Tag Taxonomy: Sad, Angry, Confrontational, Neutral, Cheerful, Enthusiastic, each mapped to a specific business action. These labels describe how a response is expressed in the conversation, not what a person privately feels.
- Validation Philosophy: Trained on listener perception, not speaker self-report. Grounded in 50+ published studies.
What You Get
A self-answering evaluation checklist for technical buyers covering architecture, accuracy, privacy, and business utility. Plus the complete feature engineering pipeline and intensity calibration benchmarks.
Get It Now
Download the full PDF from our Whitepapers page.