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Silent Sound Technology

This document summarizes silent sound technology, which allows people to transmit information without using their vocal cords. It works by monitoring tiny muscle movements in the face that occur when speaking and converting them into electrical signals that can be translated into speech. The technology has applications for helping people who have lost their voice as well as military communications. While still in development, silent sound technology promises to enable silent phone calls and conversations without disturbing others.

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Silent Sound Technology

This document summarizes silent sound technology, which allows people to transmit information without using their vocal cords. It works by monitoring tiny muscle movements in the face that occur when speaking and converting them into electrical signals that can be translated into speech. The technology has applications for helping people who have lost their voice as well as military communications. While still in development, silent sound technology promises to enable silent phone calls and conversations without disturbing others.

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CONTENTS

• Introduction
• Need of Silent Sound Technology
• Methods
• Features
• Applications
• Conclusion
• References
Introduction
It is a technology that helps you to transmit
information 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 now” .
 In the case of an urgent call, apologetically rushing
out of the room in order to answer or call the person
back.
Recent events
This year 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
& the tongue. Words are produced using articulator
muscle in the mouth & jaw region.
 Now imagine a technology that could allow everyone
to make phone calls, and talk, without making a
sound….. Serene, peaceful & heavenly.

Recently, its proved that the articulator muscle become active


irrespective of whether air passes through them or not.

Even by saying words without producing sound, weak


electric currents are sent from your brain to the speech
muscle.

These electrical signals are known as


ELECTROMYOGRAMS.
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 .
When there is a match that sound is transmitted on to the
other end of the line and person at the other end listen to
the spoken words
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.,
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

 Digital Image Processing undergoes three general steps:


Pre-processing
Display and enhancement
Information extraction
Features
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.
APPLICATION
The Technology opens up a host of application such as
mentioned below

Helping people who have lost their voice due to


illness or accident.

Silent Sound Techniques is applied in Military for


communicating secret/confidential matters to others.
CONCLUSION
Engineers claim that the device is working with 99
percent efficiency.
• 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.
THANK YOU

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