[extropy-chat] NASA Develops System To Computerize Silent Speech

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>From The Register: NASA boffins have pulled off a seemingly impressive
feat - reading words which have not actually been spoken. The system works
by computer analysis of "sub-auditory" speech at the throat. NASA's Ames
Research Center developer Chuck Jorgensen explains further: "A person using
the subvocal system thinks of phrases and talks to himself so quietly it
cannot be heard, but the tongue and vocal cords do receive speech signals
from the brain".
>From Science Daily: NASA scientists have begun to computerize human, silent
reading using nerve signals in the throat that control speech. In
preliminary experiments, NASA scientists found that small, button-sized
sensors, stuck under the chin and on either side of the 'Adam's apple,'
could gather nerve signals, send them to a processor and then to a computer
program that translates them into words. "What is analyzed is silent, or
subauditory, speech, such as when a person silently reads or talks to
himself," said Chuck Jorgensen, a scientist whose team is developing silent,
subvocal speech recognition at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field,
Calif. "Biological signals arise when reading or speaking to oneself with or
without actual lip or facial movement," Jorgensen explained.

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