"Audeo" Neck Band for Sub-Vocal Communication
This prototype "Audeo" neckband by Ambient Corporation is capable of picking up nerve impulses sent to the vocal cords, which can then be machine-translated into speech. The processing delay is awfully slow right now, the vocabulary the computer understands is limited to about 150 words, and you have to wear a severe neck band full of sensors, but it all looks pretty fantastic to me. It'll be a while before we can have completely sub-vocal telephone conversations (and who wants to talk to a machine voice if you don't have to?) but I could see these being used as an ancillary input for a wide variety of devices, especially for the military.
Nerve-tapping neckband allows 'telepathic' chat [NewScientist.com via Gizmodo]
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For some reason I find it ammusing that the device as it is now resmbles a 17th century neck stock.
Hello Clive Cussler! Or were these in Timeline?
One day, speaking out loud will be as quaint and rare as handwriting a letter is now. Should I be sad, scared or awed? Because I'm a little of all three.
I call shenanigans..
Occam's Razor says that there is somebody offstage typing in a response to s simple MS speech synth..
The whole setup seems fishy to me - difficulty putting my finger on it exactly but something in the "demo" stank. Something in it reeked of just too much showmanship, Something too "set-up" about it. And the young CEO-type demoing the product seemed more like a con-man than a geek with a new idea.
Every year a new startup does something like this to get money out of naive investors and/or the defense industry. Remember the laser that was supposed to carry a taser-like charge through it's beam a la Star Trek? And of course the 30 year olld con that keeps on giving - the Moeller flyiig car - they got a lot of defense money on that one.
This just doesn't pass my BS detector.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo."
I believe this one in part because it's working so _poorly_.
Technogirl is correct, this is BS. Anyone who has any understanding of human speech production mechanisms would know that this can't possibly do what is claimed. At best it can be used to elicit a few pre-synthesized phrases, but that's it. You cannot get that kind of speech information from the laryngeal nerves even if you could perfectly tap into those nerves and perfectly decipher the neural coding.