Silent speech with ultrasound
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Silent speech with ultrasound
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#2> The two biggest hardware challenges are reducing the size and weight of the ultrasound probe and replacing ultrasound gel with a more practical coupling material, such as hydrogel. We think both are solvable, making it possible for the probe to eventually become a lightweight wearable or adhesive patch.
Not sure I'd want to put an adhesive patch on my neck every morning so I can silently talk to an LLM in the cubicle farm. I hope this is not our future.
Very cool tech though and surprisingly good results for so little training.
I think time might be better spent improving a lip reading model (no adhesive required), assuming we're unable to read brainwaves directly.
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#3Wonderful tech, and video example. I think there may also be a special forces application, but I don't know enough about how well their current solution works.
In the office, a non-contact video solution (lip reading) is likely to be far more popular, but a lot depends on which is more accurate.
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#4I wonder if, like with lip reading, they switch from American English to a different language that's not so peculiar they would have and much less error rate
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#5> The two biggest hardware challenges are reducing the size and weight of the ultrasound probe and replacing ultrasound gel with a more practical coupling material, such as hydrogel. We think both are solvable, making it possible for the probe to eventually become a lightweight wearable or adhesive patch. Not sure I'd want to put an adhesive patch on my neck every morning so I can silently talk to an LLM in the cubic…
Keeping a camera focused on the lips could get awkward. A hands free throat patch may be more ergonomic.
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#6I wonder if, like with lip reading, they switch from American English to a different language that's not so peculiar they would have and much less error rate
reminds me of the handwriting recognition language Graffiti from palm/handspring days.
It ended up altering my handwriting even after I stopped using it.
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#7I wonder if, like with lip reading, they switch from American English to a different language that's not so peculiar they would have and much less error rate
I suppose Spanish or German would be easier to recognize than English, due to the more distinct sounds, but Chinese would be much harder, due to the tones.
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#8That could be immensely helpful for people who cannot speak due to vocal chord problems.
It could also be the ultimate, always-on remote control for everything around, with a near-zero error rate.
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#9I remember a story decades ago about "subvocal" speech, similar to this: https://spacenews.com/nasa-develops-system-to-computerize-si...
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#10These guys are on a roll!