subvocal speech recognition

2004. 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 Adams apple, could gather nerve signals, send them to a processor and then to a computer program that translates them into words.

"What is analyzed is silent, or sub-auditory, speech, such as when a person silently reads or talks to himself," said Chuck Jorgensen, a scientist whose team is developing silent, subvocal speech recognition.

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2004/04_18AR.html

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[bayjspw02]

they didn't present it well, but the tooth thing is actually a device for HEARING sounds from your phone by transmitting the vibrations into your jaw. vocalization part would then have to be handled by something like Jorgensen's system. end result would be a two-way, silent, inconspicuous means of communication.

[bluesrunthegame]

That was ridiculous; teeth don't have motor neurons, only afferent ones. Subvocal recognition has so many applications, and all they do is appeal to the conspicuous consumer.