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Silent Sound Technology allows for communication without vocalizing words. It works by monitoring tiny muscle movements in the face that occur during speech and translating these movements into electrical signals that can then be converted back into audible speech. Two main methods are electromyography, which detects electric pulses from facial muscles, and image processing, which analyzes lip and mouth movements through video. Applications include helping people who have lost their voice as well as covert or silent communication like sharing a PIN number privately. The technology opens up possibilities for translation between languages as well as silent phone calls.

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Ece Silent Sound Technology

Silent Sound Technology allows for communication without vocalizing words. It works by monitoring tiny muscle movements in the face that occur during speech and translating these movements into electrical signals that can then be converted back into audible speech. Two main methods are electromyography, which detects electric pulses from facial muscles, and image processing, which analyzes lip and mouth movements through video. Applications include helping people who have lost their voice as well as covert or silent communication like sharing a PIN number privately. The technology opens up possibilities for translation between languages as well as silent phone calls.

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SEMINAR REPORT

ON
 Silent Sound Technology

Submitted To: - Submitted By: Ravi Shankar


Enrollment No.-20196202817
CONTENTS

• Introduction
• Need of Silent Sound Technology
• Origination
• Methods
• Features
• Applications
• Conclusion
• References
What it is……..?

 It is a technology that helps you to transmit infor


mation without using your vocal cords.
 This technology aims to notice lip movements &
transform them into a computer generated sound
that can be transmitted over a phone.
 Hence person on other end of phone receives the
information in audio
Need for Silent Sound

• An end to embarrassed situations such as


 A person answering his silent, but vibrating cell
phone in a meeting, lecture or performance, and
whispering loudly, “ I can’t talk to you right no
w” .
 In the case of an urgent call, apologetically rushi
ng out of the room in order to answer or call the
person back.
Origination

 The idea of interpreting silent speech electronically or with a


computer was popularized in the 1968 Stanley Kubrick science-
fiction film ‗‗2001 – A Space Odyssey‖

 In 2010 at CEBIT one of the largest trade fair a new concept


called “SILENT SOUND TECHNOLOGY” was demonstrated

 This technology is being developed by scientists of


Karlsruhe Institute Of Technology (KIT), Germany .
HOW WE SPEAK……….?

• When we generally speak aloud, air passes through larynx &


he tongue. Words are produced using articulator muscle in th
e mouth & jaw region.
 Recently it is proved that when we are about to speak
due to reflex action of muscles the articulate muscle
becomes active irrespective of wheter air is passed
through them or not

 Even by saying words without producing sound weak


electric currents are sent from brain to speech muscles.
This phenomenon is called ELECTROMYOGRAPHS
Methods

Two Methods for using Silent Sound Technology


1. Electromyography
Monitoring tiny muscular movements that occur when we
speak.
Signals are converted into electrical pulses that can then be
turned into speech, without a sound uttered.

2. Image Processing
Converting digital data tape into a film image with minimal
corrections and calibrations.
 Large mainframe computers employed for sophisticated
interactive manipulation of the data.
ELECTROMYOGRAPHY

It is a technique which monitors tiny muscular movements and


pulses generated by it . The transducers involved converts the pulses
into electric signals .

Electromyographic sensors attached to the face records the electric


signals produced by the facial muscles, compare them with pre
recorded signal pattern of spoken words
Working of Electromyography

A needle containing two fine-wired electrodes is inserted


through the skin into the muscle tissue.

Then the electrical activity when the muscle is at rest is


observed.
Each electrode track gives only a very local picture of the
activity of the whole muscle

 Because skeletal muscles differ in the inner structure, the


electrode has to be placed at various locations to obtain an
accurate signal.

Thus by this way the speech can be communicated without


sound.
SILENT SPEECH INTERFACES
Working of Electromyography
Image Processing

The simplest form of digital image processing converts the


digital data tape into a film image with minimal corrections
and calibrations.

Then large mainframe computers are employed for


sophisticated interactive manipulation of the data.

In the present context, overhead prospective are employed


to analyze the picture.
Image Processing techniques

Analysis of remotely sensed data is done using various image


processing techniques and methods that includes:

Analog image processing


Digital image processing
Analog image Processing
Analog processing techniques is applied to hard copy data such as
photographs or printouts.

It adopts certain elements of interpretation, such as primary element,


spatial arrangement etc., 

With the combination of multi-concept of examining remotely sensed


data in multispectral, multitemporal, multiscales and in conjunction
with multidisciplinary, allows us to make a verdict not only as to what
an object is but also its importance.

 Apart from these it also includes optical photogrammetric techniques


allowing for precise measurement of the height, width, location, etc. of
an object.
Digital image processing
Digital Image Processing involves a collection of
techniques for the manipulation of digital images by
computers. It contain some flaws.

To overcome the flaws and deficiencies in order to get the


originality of the data, it needs to undergo several steps of
processing.

Digital Image Processing undergoes three general steps:


Pre-processing
Display and enhancement
Information extraction
Features

Some of the features of silent sound technology are

 Native speakers can silently utter a sentence in their language, and the receivers
can hear the translated sentence in their language.

 It appears as if the native speaker produced speech in a foreign language.

 The translation technology works for languages like English, French and
German, except Chinese, where different tones can hold many different
meanings.

  Allow people to make silent calls without bothering others.


Applications

The Technology opens up a host of application such as mentioned below

Helping people who have lost their voice due to illness or accident.

Telling a trusted friend your PIN number over the phone without
anyone eavesdropping — assuming no lip-readers are around.

Silent Sound Techniques is applied in Military for communicating


secret/confidential matters to others.
CONCLUSION

• Thus Silent Sound Technology, one of the recent


trends in the field of Information technology
implements ‘Talking Without Talking’.
• It will be one of the innovative and useful
technology and in mere future this technology will
be of use in day to day life.
REFERENCES

• www.google.com
• www.wikipedia.com
• www.studymafia.org
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