Friday 21 March 2008

Voiceless Phone Call

A neckband that translates thought into speech by picking up nerve signals has been used to demonstrate a 'voiceless' phone call for the first time.

With careful training a person can send nerve signals to their vocal cords without making a sound. These signals are picked up by the neckband and relayed wirelessly to a computer that converts them into words spoken by a computerised voice.


4 comment(s):

Anonymous said...

Nice idea, but what happens if you 'think' something that you don't really mean to be converted to speech?

Gerard said...

Yes, it's a matter of think before you um... think. :)

Anonymous said...

is this how the physicist steven hawking communicates?
rose

Anonymous said...

Surely this is a joke, not really possible, should be tagged humor or scam. - ER