ABSTRACT
The lockdown due to Covid-19 has resulted in us relying heavily on technology to communicate and see each other. That, in turn, has led to an explosion of applications that provide audio and video conferencing solutions;which, in turn, has resulted in the generation of vast volumes of visual and auditory data. This ocean of data is mainly untapped and has vast potential to help us build applications that can one day hope to, truly, assist people. All this data, particularly auditory data, can be used to build applications that can support us by communicating with us and understanding what we say, making it comfortable and closer to humans. This data can also be processed to give us more insights into the behaviour of humans and what makes us truly us. All this and many more insights, which are waiting to be tapped, can be garnered from this goldmine of data, thereby allowing us to bridge the huge gap between man and machine. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.