Silent voice - input method innovation

They have conducted the following interesting experiment. Electrodes were placed on the skin of a subject at the neck. Then a specially trained person imitated a phone call without sounding an utterance or even moving his lips!

They say, when "articulating" text in one's mind, the nerves relevant to speech are activated similarly to when reading the text aloud. They have achieved fair decoding accuracy from these signals.

There could exist many use cases for an interface built around these findings. On top of all previously known applications for speech recognition, those could also be realized which were inappropriate at certain locations because of the noise induced by speech. Imagine the workplace perspective of talking on the phone without opening your lips or making any sound, all with the speed of speech!

Too bad it has such a low speed in practise today. I wonder how far they can push it.

You can also view a video demonstration at the original article: Nerve-tapping neckband used in 'telepathic' chat

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Tftp secret of TL-WR740N uncovered

Hidden TFTP of TP-Link routers

Haskell for embedded: C output, compilers, monads, Timber