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This Device Can Hear You Talking to Yourself
Smithsonian Magazine ^ | August 5, 2019 | Emily Matchar

Posted on 08/06/2019 2:33:41 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Kapur’s new wearable device system, can detect what you’re saying when you’re talking to yourself, even if you’re completely silent and not moving your mouth.

The technology involves a system of sensors that detect the minuscule neuromuscular signals sent by the brain to the vocal cords and muscles of the throat and tongue. These signals are sent out whenever we speak to ourselves silently, even if we make no sounds. The device feeds the signals through an A.I., which “reads” them and turns them into words. The user hears the A.I.’s responses through a microphone that conducts sound through the bones of the skull and ear, making them silent to others. Users can also respond out loud using artificial voice technology.

Kapur is currently testing the device on people with communication limitations through various hospitals and rehabilitation centers in the Boston area. These limitations could be caused by stroke, cerebral palsy or neurodegenerative diseases like ALS. In the case of ALS, the disease affects the nerves in the brain and spinal cord, progressively robbing people of their ability to use their muscles, including those that control speech. But their brains still send speech signals to the vocal cords and the 100-plus muscles involved in speaking. AlterEgo can capture those signals and turn them into speech. According to Kapur’s research, the system is about 92 percent accurate.

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To: Paal Gulli
I only think to myself in Chuukese

I only speak Tifinagh. It's lonely sometimes.

21 posted on 08/06/2019 3:51:34 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (“They are openly planning to murder you. Have a plan to prevent that.”)
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To: BenLurkin
Don't need it...my dog communicates with me telepathically. For example, this is her "I'm hungry" look:

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It also works for when she has to go outside. No doubt about it, she's a great communicator...lol.

22 posted on 08/06/2019 3:55:29 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: BenLurkin

I just got off the phone with the service manager who told that my vehicle still isn’t ready. If I had been wearing this device, he would have heard something a lot different than the civil voice I was using.


23 posted on 08/06/2019 4:05:51 PM PDT by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of arrogance, incompetence, and corruption.)
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To: Red Badger
oooo kay
24 posted on 08/06/2019 4:06:57 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: BenLurkin

Talking to yourself is fine...

Answering yourself is fine...

The problem is when you respond, “I’m sorry, what did you say?”


25 posted on 08/06/2019 4:16:58 PM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: BenLurkin

Will be great for interrogations...So much for the right to remain silent...


26 posted on 08/06/2019 4:18:22 PM PDT by elteemike (Light travels faster than sound...That's why so many people appear bright until you hear them speak)
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To: Pilsner

He was awesome.


27 posted on 08/06/2019 4:39:03 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: BenLurkin

Prosecutor:
AlterEgo testified specifically and emphatically that you threatened to douse an honorable ranking elected Democratic public servant with a deluge of an hundred milkshakes. What do you have to say for yourself now?

Defendant:
I never sub-vocalized that to myself!

Prosecutor:
Your Honor, I move to have that response stricken from the record, as non-verifiable non-hearsay!

Judge:
Objection sustained. In light of this obvious future thought crime, we find the defendant guilty as charged.


28 posted on 08/06/2019 5:08:30 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Night Hides Not

I think what she’s really thinking is, “Why don’t you pick up around here.”


29 posted on 08/06/2019 6:06:14 PM PDT by Orbiter
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To: Larry Lucido; dfwgator

But you must think in Russian!!

RUSSIAN COLLUSION!!!!


30 posted on 08/06/2019 8:05:24 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: BenLurkin

[ This Device Can Hear You Talking to Yourself ]

Terri Schiavo was unavailable for thought-comment.


31 posted on 08/06/2019 8:15:55 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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