Can Disorders be Heard? With Henry O’Connell

Henry O’Connell, Founder and CEO of Canary Speech joins guest-host Erica Robinson from Solace LifeSciences, Inc. to talk about how the Canary Speech app uses AI and machine learning to provide 200 thousand data points to analyze stress levels in speech patterns.

Ever thought three minutes of light conversation could give you that much information? Tune in and get ready to take notes.

Introduction quote

“When you’re looking at 200.000 data points, you can be more accurate, you can be more specific. We can tell the severity of someone’s stress in the morning and after doing a meditation or an event where they’re calming themselves. After they go walking or after they exercise, they can measure again and see the impact of that in their lives.” — Henry O’Connell

Guest bio

Henry O’Connell has over 20 years of executive and C-level experience. Following graduate school, O’Connell began his career at the National Institutes of Health in a neurological disease group and continued on to a successful business career specializing in turnaround situations in the tech industry.

Find out more about Henry O’Connell on his LinkedIn

Key Takeaways

[1:00] David welcomes Henry O’Connell as well as today’s guest host, Erica Robinson. Erica starts off the conversation with a question on the origins of Canary Speech.

[4:00] What are the underlying speech markers of the human condition? Henry speaks to the features that the Canary Speech app provides.

[5:00] There are multiple speech recognition software apps available, however, Henry offers a few critical reasons why their app differs and how it makes it much more performant — regardless of the spoken language.

[7:53] AI training for the Canary Speech algorithm was enabled through a multitude of clinical and pharma studies and resulted in models that are aligned with industry standards. Henry shares some of the research they did as well as the results they generated

[10:00] Whether for your own baseline or as a community comparison tool, Canary Speech’s scores can serve as a tool to monitor your overall sympathetic health.

[11:13] Henry talks about Canary Speech performance as compared to the usual methods (cortisol, saliva testing, HRV, etc.)

[14:16] What studies are currently being done in the mental health field with Canary Speech? Henry shares how they are trying to identify mental illness comorbidities as vectors of health improvement.

[19:35] Henry shares some personal examples of using the app and how it has impacted his own life experience.

[23:15] Canary Speech’s newest projects and opportunities!

[27:17] Henry shares what the last book he read was: check out Glenn Beck.

[28:38] Erica thanks Henry for sharing his knowledge and app with the mastermind and invites listeners to keep an ear out for a Q&A episode with Henry in the future.

Continue on your journey and until next time, breathe deep, relax, and keep looking forward.

Mentioned in this episode

NuCalm

Canary Speech

Author: Glenn Beck

More about your host

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More about NuCalm and the podcast

This is NuCalm, the show for those looking to improve sleep quality, manage stress, and boost recovery. Brought to you by Solace Lifesciences, the makers of NuCalm, the world’s only patented and proven neuroscience technology that works within minutes, without drugs, every time! In over one million medical sessions, NuCalm has helped men and women around the world.

NuCalm: stress relief for the way we live today, technology to help you disconnect.

Pull quotes

“Because we’re sub-word level, we tend to be language agnostic.” — Henry O’Connell

“Our nervous system wears out, and most of its repair is done during deep sleep. If we don’t have deep sleep for prolonged periods of time, our nervous system is not repairing itself.” — Henry O’Connell

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