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Silent Sound Technology: Brahmanand Kaushik

Silent sound technology allows for communication without vocalizing by detecting tiny electrical signals from speech muscles during lip movements and facial expressions. Sensors attached to the face pick up electromyography signals that are pattern matched to pre-recorded speech samples, transmitting the resulting audio to the listener. While promising for secret communication, translation, and helping those unable to speak, the technology currently requires many sensor attachments and has difficulty with tonal languages or conveying emotion. Further miniaturization of sensors and image recognition techniques could improve usability.

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Silent Sound Technology: Brahmanand Kaushik

Silent sound technology allows for communication without vocalizing by detecting tiny electrical signals from speech muscles during lip movements and facial expressions. Sensors attached to the face pick up electromyography signals that are pattern matched to pre-recorded speech samples, transmitting the resulting audio to the listener. While promising for secret communication, translation, and helping those unable to speak, the technology currently requires many sensor attachments and has difficulty with tonal languages or conveying emotion. Further miniaturization of sensors and image recognition techniques could improve usability.

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SILENT SOUND TECHNOLOGY

BRAHMANAND KAUSHIK
COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGG.
ROLL NO. 0810410015
What it is……..?
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.
ORIGINATION

Humans are capable of producing and understanding whispered
speech in quiet environments at remarkably low signal levels. Most
people can also understand a few unspoken words by lip-reading.


The idea of interpreting silent speech electronically or with a
computer has been around for a long time, and was popularized in
the 1968 Stanley Kubrick science-fiction film ‘‘2001 – A Space
Odyssey”.


A major focal point was the DARPA Advanced Speech Encoding
Program (ASE) of the early 2000’s, which funded research on low bit
rate speech synthesis ‘‘with acceptable intelligibility, quality, and
aural speaker recognizability in acoustically harsh environments”.
Recent events
In year 2010 at Cebit, one of the largest trade fair in
Australia, 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.


ELECTROMYOGRAPHY
It is a technique which monitors tiny muscular
movements and pulses generated by it . The transducers
involved converts the pulses into electric signals .
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE
EMG

SIGNAL
The amplitude of the signal can range from 0 to 10 mV
(peak-to-peak) or 0 to 1.5 mV (rms).
The usable energy of the signal is limited to the 0 to 500
Hz frequency range, with the dominant energy being in
the 50-150 Hz range.
Surface electromyography (sEMG) based
speech recognition
Surface Electromyography (sEMG) is the process of
recording electrical muscle activity captured by surface
(i.e. non-implanted) electrodes.
When a muscle fiber is activated by the central
nervous system, small electrical currents in the form of
ion flows are generated.
These electrical currents move through the body
tissue, whose resistance creates potential differences
which can be measured between different regions on
the body surface.
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.
SILENT SPEECH INTERFACES
IN INTERFACEING WE USE FOUR DIFFERENT KIND OF
TRANSDUCERS
 Vibration sensors
 Pressure sensor
 Electromagnetic sensor
 Motion sensor
APPLICATION
As we know in space there is no medium for sound to
travel therefore this technology can be best utilized by
astronauts.
We can make silent calls even if we are standing in a
crowded place.
This technology is helpful for people without vocal cord
or those who are suffering from Aphasia (speaking
disorder ).
This technology can be used for communication in nasty
environment.
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To tell a secret PIN no. , or credit card no. on the phone
now be easy as there is no one eavesdrop anymore.
Since the electrical signals are universal they can be
translated into any language. Native speakers can
translate it before sending it to the other side. Hence it
can be converted into any language of choice currently
being German, English & French.
RESTRICTIONS
Translation into majority of languages but for languages
such as Chinese different tone holds different meaning,
facial movements being the same. Hence this technology
is difficult to apply in such situations.
From security point of view recognising who you are
talking to gets complicated.
Even differentiating between people and emotions
cannot be done. This means you will always feel you are
talking to a robot.
This device presently needs nine leads to be attached to
our face which is quite impractical to make it usable.
FUTURE PROSPECTS
Silent sound technology gives way to a bright future to
speech recognition technology from simple voice
commands to memorandum dictated over the phone all
this is fairly possible in noisy public places.
Without having electrodes hanging all around your face,
these electrodes will be incorporated into cellphones .
It may have features like lip reading based on image
recognition & processing rather than electromyography.
Nano technology will be a mentionable step towards
making the device handy.
CONCLUSION
Engineers claim that the device is working with 99
percent efficiency.
It is difficult to compare SSI technologies directly in a
meaningful way. Since many of the systems are still
preliminary, it would not make sense, for example, to
compare speech recognition scores or synthesis quality at
this stage.
With a few abstractions, however, it is possible to shed
light on the range of applicability and the potential for
future commercialization of the different methods.
THANK YOU

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