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Hume AI’s platform equips researchers and developers with machine learning tools to better understand vocal and nonverbal communication, improving clinical research, clinical practice, and patient outcomes.

NEW YORK – September 29, 2022 – (Newswire.com)

Northwell Holdings, the for-profit investment arm of Northwell Health, New York State’s largest healthcare provider and private employer, today announced a strategic investment of $3 million in Hume AI, a leading expressive communication research lab and technology company. The investment aims to address the growing demand for scientific tools to understand language and nonverbal expression in the healthcare industry. Hume AI plans to use the funding to refine their advanced machine learning models for use in health applications, including clinical research, patient screening, and accessibility technology.

These models, accessible through Hume AI’s integrated platform, address a significant shortcoming of natural language understanding (NLU) tools, which convert speech into text. NLU tools overlook how the meaning of speech can be transformed dramatically by its tune, rhythm, and timbre, along with nonverbal utterances such as laughs, sighs, and gasps. Such features are particularly important for understanding health conditions such as pain, major depression, and cognitive impairment. With NLU rapidly being integrated into healthcare applications, Hume AI’s platform will enable a more accurate understanding of expressive communication at every step of the patient’s journey, from screening to diagnosis and treatment.

“Technologies that draw upon the latest scientific research to help us better understand not just what people say, but how they say it, have profound potential to benefit patients,” said Rich Mulry, CEO and President of Northwell Holdings. “We already see rising demand for this technology in treatment, clinical research, telehealth applications and more. To promote the careful development of these potentially transformative technologies, we are excited to launch our partnership with Hume AI through an investment that reflects our confidence in Dr. Alan Cowen and his groundbreaking team.”

Hume AI builds its models using new peer-reviewed scientific research and algorithms designed to minimize bias. Previous technologies for understanding nonverbal expression have focused on the expression of six emotions—happiness, sadness, anger, disgust, fear, and surprise—based on established psychological models. Scientific research published in leading journals by Hume AI’s founder and CEO Dr. Alan Cowen, Chief Scientific Advisor Dr. Dacher Keltner, and colleagues has given rise to a more nuanced theory of human expressive behavior. Known as semantic space theory, this work documents how expressions involve complex patterns in language, speech prosody, nonverbal vocalizations like sighs and chuckles, and movement in more than 30 facial muscles. To translate this research into effective machine learning models, Cowen and his team have collected new experimental data from around the world that allow them to characterize the nuances of expressive communication within and across cultures with less bias and more precision.

“In recent years, there have been major scientific advances in our understanding of expressive communication,” Cowen said. “For the first time, we can equip researchers and practitioners in the healthcare space with objective, nuanced, and multidimensional measures of human expression. We are deeply grateful to Northwell Holdings for recognizing the extraordinary potential of this new technology to improve people’s lives and address health inequities. Our partnership will support translational researchers studying how expressive signals relate to mood, mental health, and pain in neuropsychiatric disorders, as well as customers developing new interventions to restore emotional intonation to speech aids, annotate emotional context, and guide empathic behavior.”

For more information on Hume AI, click here.

About Hume AI 

Hume AI is a leading expressive communication research lab and startup with a mission of aligning technology with human well-being. Based on scientific research that reveals a broader spectrum of expressive behavior than previously known, Hume AI offers the world’s most accurate and comprehensive tools for understanding nonverbal expression, including speech prosody, vocalizations like sighs, and facial expressions. Led by founder and CEO Dr. Alan Cowen, an established expert in the field of affective science, Hume AI develops its models using new scientific research that it conducts and regularly publishes in leading journals. The company provides its datasets and models through a unified API platform. Learn more about Hume AI at www.hume.ai and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

About Northwell Holdings

Northwell Holdings (“Holdings”), a fully owned, for-profit subsidiary of Northwell Health, creates value for the health system by investing in early-stage companies, establishing commercial joint ventures, cultivating internally-developed ideas and bringing them to market, and advancing data partnerships that drive innovation in patient care, health diagnostics, and deep technology. We invest in companies that are aligned with Northwell’s mission, promote better health outcomes, improve patient experience, and increase efficiencies in care delivery and services. Through strategic partnerships, Holdings leverages the health system’s robust enterprise data assets to develop AI-enabled solutions that address healthcare inequities. We combine Northwell Health’s clinical and healthcare business expertise and entrepreneurial spirit to bring concepts to life. Northwell Health is New York’s largest healthcare system. To learn more, visit us here and follow us on LinkedIn.

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Starrag’s strong commitment to its customers in North America and Mexico continues increasingly, with a host of developments that will continue to help users of every size and across all industries to be more efficient and profitable with their Starrag machines.

HEBRON, Ky. – September 26, 2022 – (Newswire.com)

Starrag has recently expanded its North American team of experts in service and increased the inventory of spare parts to a value of over $1.5 Mio.

The newly renovated and enlarged TechCenter and Showroom in Hebron, Kentucky will present a Starrag LX021 turbine blade machining center, a five-axis, multi-purpose Heckert T45 horizontal machining center and the new Bumotec 191^neo multi-axis, multi-tasking machining center for the production of small, complex parts in a single set-up. Starrag will provide on-machine training, as well as turnkeys, open houses and live demonstrations that can be broadcasted directly.

Starrag also opened a new office in Mexico with sales, applications and service support.

Service is a key function for Starrag and its customers worldwide, with the company’s Service Plus packages offering, for example, providing users with tailored support packages that include service, support and maintenance at fixed calculable prices over a machine(s) life cycle. The reaction time to any service requests is four hours at most and with on-site attendance within 24 hours and next business day parts delivery. Any request will be answered by a service technician, no automated hold system.

The service package offers customers not only extended machine warranties and avoid machine breakdowns but, ultimately, it also ensures a higher return on their machine investment.

In addition, with a larger team of highly trained service personnel and US based parts inventory, Starrag provides a cost-effective yet comprehensive support ‘partnerships’ and unrivalled service response times will continue to be upheld, to enable customers to make the most of their installed Starrag machine base, which is impressive for having more than 700 machines installed in North America alone.

Applications support is another key attribute of Starrag’s customer support philosophy. Starrag engineers and technicians collaborating with users, often from the start of every new project, to determine then develop the most effective and efficient ways to manufacture parts of every size and in any material.

Now, with the opening of the Starrag Mexico sales, service and applications support office in Queretaro, Starrag users profit the long-established engineering expertise gained from global installations of all types of Starrag machines producing every type of workpiece for all industry sectors.

The office is strategically located in Queretaro where many companies are located involved in the aerospace and automotive industry. “It is being established to serve the dynamic growth and development of these industry sectors,” says Carlos Castro who leads the new office as Regional Sales Manager.

“The region has 45 industrial parks and employs more than 49,000 people in automotive and aerospace alone,” he adds. “These companies are involved in the production of light vehicles, and auto parts and components – while the aerospace companies machine engines, landing gear assemblies, turbines and electrical systems, for instance – making this region a critical center for advanced manufacturing, engineering, design and development of strategic value to the world’s aerospace and automotive industries.”

While commenting that Starrag Mexico is “an exciting development that will enable us to expand our focus and growth in South America,” Udo Herbes, Managing Director of Starrag North America says that the recently extended (to 2,134 ft²) TechCenter and Showroom in Hebron, Kentucky, will now enable the company to have the Starrag LX021, Heckert T45 and the Bumotec 191^neo to provide on machine training, as well as turn keys, open houses and live demonstrations via digital tools as well as personal meetings.

In addition, the site will also present Starrag’s partnership and products from TAMS (process monitoring software), Blum-Novotest (probing for parts measuring, tool setting and surface finish verification), Haimer (precision tool holding) and Blaser Swisslube.

Company profile Starrag

High-precision machine tools for greater productivity

Starrag Group is a global technology leader in manufacturing high-precision machine tools for milling, turning, boring and grinding workpieces of metallic, composite and ceramic materials. Principle customers are internationally active companies in the Aerospace, Energy, Transportation and Industrial sectors (Industrial Components, Luxury Goods, Med Tech). In addition to its portfolio of machine tools, Starrag Group provides integrated technology and maintenance services that significantly enhance customer quality and productivity.

The umbrella brand Starrag unites the product ranges Berthiez, Bumotec, Dörries, Droop+Rein, Ecospeed, Heckert, Scharmann, SIP, Starrag, TTL and WMW. Headquartered in Rorschach/Switzerland, the Starrag Group operates manufacturing plants in Switzerland, Germany, France, the UK and India and has established a network of sales and services subsidiaries in the most important customer countries.

The shares of Starrag Group Holding AG are listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange.

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