Hi Product Hunt! Firstly, thanks to @rrhoover for hunting us. Woman Interrupted is a project by BETC São Paulo, and powered by Brave João Reichert (it’s me!) and Matheus Weber are the iOS Developers behind the project I’ll explain a little about it and how it works. The objective of the Woman Interrupted App is to generate awareness and more debate around Manterrupting. The innovation also aims to raise awareness in the male audience, who often does not recognize their behavior. In 2014, a study by researchers at the George Washington University (USA), published in the Journal of Language and Social Psychology, pointed out that women are significantly more interrupted than men. This phenomenon is interpreted as one of the demonstrations of gender inequality. To identify the interruptions more accurately, the platform asks the users to record and calibrate their voice. The app uses the phone’s microphone to analyze conversations and detect the number of interruptions during the time it is activated. With the user’s voice as a parameter and the difference in the frequency of male and female voice, its technology allows it to identify in which moments the user was interrupted by a man or, in the case of a male user, how many times he interrupted a woman. Woman Interrupted analyses the sound in real time and turns interruptions directly into data. No conversations gets registered in the application, only the number of interruptions, duration and date. In the analysis, we use the recorded frequency of the woman during the calibration, and the algorithm analyzes in real time all the frequencies captured by the microphone, the algorithm has several steps and after completing the analysis it is possible to say how many times a woman has been interrupted. We’d love to hear your comments and feedback!

Ryan Hoover

Product Hunt

Hunter

Launch today on International Women's Day, this app uses your phone's microphone to identify when a man interrupts a women. Of course men can use this too, to identify when they (or other men nearby) interject. I'm curious how well this works. Someone please download and report results. 🙏🏼

8yr ago

João Henrique Reichert

Woman Interrupted

Maker

Avi Zuber

Just For Today by Fred (Not Freud)

I'mma let you finish, but.... do users have to manually track interruptions? And if it's recording in the background, it sounds like a battery suck. I do agree that there are issues related to sexism that need to be solved.

Julie Chabin

@avizuber Take a look at the screenshots. It shows that it's not a background activity (you have to activate the "recording" for it to start) Then it analyses the conversation and counts when a voice that isn't yours (voice recognition during the onboarding of the app) interrupts you.

@joao_henrique_reichert @syswarren Good call. I had only watched the video, which shows a user opening the app and the recording starting right away.

Woman Interrupted

An app that measure how often a woman is interrupted

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