Speak Your Mind
From Engadget:
A bunch of scientists at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California are working on a way for people to talk without making a sound or opening their mouths (we know you’re secretly going to miss all those people chattering away on their cellies during movies and meals). Basically it’s a new subvocal speech system that uses sensors attached to the neck that measure nerve signals used to control your vocal chords and other muscles used for speech. The sensors pick up the activity of neurons which fire whether or not you’re actually verbalizing something, so essentially you can just think what you want to say and the system will translate that into words.
It sounds like NASA defines subvocal speech as the neuromuscular processes involved in activities like whispering, or reading to yourself. The technology appears to be fairly new at this point, but it looks like it might have some interesting applications
