Ravi Soni
MTech III Sem
Amazing solution for those who had lost their voice but wish to
speak over phone.
Developed at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.
Detects every lip movement and Internally converts the
electrical pulses into sounds signals and sends them neglecting
all other surrounding noise.
Tell confidential information over phone without others hearing
it.
Allows you to communicate to any person in the world as the
electrical pulse is universal and can be converted into any
language depending upon your choice.
Expected in the next 5 - 10 years. Once launched, will have a
drastic effect and with no doubt, will be widely used.
an end to embarrassed situations such as:
A person answering his silent, but vibrating cell phone
in a meeting, lecture or performance, and whispering
loudly, “ I can’t talk to you right now” .
In the case of an urgent call, apologetically rushing
out of the room in order to answer or call the person
back.
idea of interpreting silent speech electronically
or with a computer was popularized in the 1968
Stanley Kubrick science-fiction film ‘‘2001 – A
Space Odyssey”.
Major focal point was the DARPA’s Advanced
Speech Encoding Program (ASE) of the early
2000’s.
Two Methods for using Silent Sound Technology
1. Electromyography
Monitoring tiny muscular movements that occur when we
speak.
Signals are converted into electrical pulses that can then be
turned into speech, without a sound uttered.
2. Image Processing
Converting digital data tape into a film image with minimal
corrections and calibrations.
Large mainframe computers employed for sophisticated
interactive manipulation of the data.
Technique for evaluating and recording the electrical
activity produced by skeletal muscles.
Performed using an instrument called an
“Electromyograph”, to produce a record called an
“Electromyogram”.
Electromyograph detects the electrical potential
generated by muscle cells when these cells are
electrically or neurologically activated.
Monitored signals are converted into electrical pulses
that can then be turned into speech.
First documented experiments dealing with EMG started with
Francesco Redi’s works in 1666.
He discovered that a highly specialized muscle of the electric ray
fish (Electric Eel) generated electricity.
By 1773, it was demonstrated that the Eel’s muscle tissue could
generate a spark of electricity.
In 1849, Dubois-Raymond discovered that it was also possible to
record electrical activity during a voluntary muscle contraction.
First actual recording of this activity was made by Marey in 1890,
who also introduced the term “Electromyography”.
A Needle electrode or a needle
containing two fine - wire electrodes
is inserted through the skin into the
muscle tissue.
The insertional activity provides
valuable information about the state
of the muscle and its innervating
nerve.
Normal muscles at rest make certain, normal
electrical signals when the needle is inserted into
them.
Abnormal spontaneous activity might indicate some
nerve and/or muscle damage.
Patient is asked to contract the muscle smoothly and
the shape, size, and frequency of the resulting motor
unit potentials are judged.
The electrode is retracted a few millimeters, and
again the activity is analyzed until at least 10–20
units have been collected.
Normal Results
Muscle tissue at rest is normally electrically inactive.
After the electrical activity caused by the irritation of
needle insertion subsides, the electromyograph should
detect no abnormal spontaneous activity.
Abnormal Results
An action potential amplitude that is twice normal due
to the increased number of fibres per motor unit
because of reinnervation of denervated fibres.
EMG signals are essentially made up of
superimposed motor unit action potentials (MUAPs)
from several motor units.
MUAPs from different motor units tend to have
different characteristic shapes, while MUAPs
recorded by the same electrode from the same motor
unit are typically similar.
MUAP size and shape depend on where the electrode
is located with respect to the fibers and so can appear
to be different if the electrode moves position.
Native speakers can silently utter a sentence in
their language, and the receivers can hear the
translated sentence in their language.
Allow people to make silent calls without
bothering others.
Helping people who have lost their voice due to
illness or accident.
Telling a trusted friend your PIN number over the
phone without anyone eavesdropping —
assuming no lip-readers are around.
Silent Sound Techniques is applied in Military for
communicating secret/confidential matters to
others.
Silent Sound Technology, one of the recent trends
in the field of information technology implements
”Talking Without Talking”.
It will be one of the innovation and useful
technology and in mere future this technology
will be use in our day to day life.
