timBoucher » ANCHOR. Subvocal Speech Recognition. Natural Language Programming. #buildspeak

Other things the show touched on was a contact lens that is connected to the internet and acts as a monitor directly on your eye, awakening the ability to regrow lost limbs naturally, like a lizard can, and a number of other innovations that are not as far away as you might think. The name of the show is “Next World”

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NASA scientists have begun to computerize human, silent reading using nerve signals in the throat that control speech. In preliminary experiments, NASA scientists found that small, button-sized sensors, stuck under the chin and on either side of the ‘Adam’s apple,’ could gather nerve signals, send them to a processor and then to a computer program that translates them into words.

So does that mean that in a psifi sense, you would be able to strap somebody into this machine and literally make them talk - unless they were able to control their thoughts and subvocal speech patterns which arise out of it. I wonder EXACTLY where the threshold lies between fervent thoughts uttered loudly within and barely audible sub vocal speech patterns and lexemes?

I guess its not very advanced yet though:

“Subvocal speech recognition deals with electromyograms that are different for each speaker. Therefore, consistency can be thrown off just by the positioning of an electrode. To improve accuracy, researchers in this field are relying on statistical models that get better at pattern-matching the more times a subject “speaks” through the electrodes. But even then there are lapses.”

This one’s dated 2006 though, and says we should have commercial subvocal tech w/in two years.

In two years time a technology that will enable users to speak without uttering a sound might become commercially available. The ability to communicate silently could assist us in every day situations such as a phone conversation on a crowded subway or simply anytime we’d prefer that others wouldn’t hear us. It could aid security and special operations forces, people with vocal cord problems, and might even find a place in gaming.

THIS ONE IS AMAZING!

“In their first experiment, scientists “trained” special software to recognize six words and 10 digits that the researchers repeated subvocally. Initial word recognition results were an average of 92 percent accurate. The first sub-vocal words the system “learned” were “stop,” “go,” “left,” “right,” “alpha” and “omega,” and the digits “zero” through “nine.” Silently speaking these words, scientists conducted simple searches on the Internet by using a number chart representing the alphabet to control a Web browser program.

“We took the alphabet and put it into a matrix — like a calendar. We numbered the columns and rows, and we could identify each letter with a pair of single-digit numbers,” Jorgensen said. “So we silently spelled out ‘NASA’ and then submitted it to a well-known Web search engine. We electronically numbered the Web pages that came up as search results. We used the numbers again to choose Web pages to examine. This proved we could browse the Web without touching a keyboard,” Jorgensen explained.”