[LibWhacker]

Y'all know what's gonna happen, doncha 'ya? DARPA will perfect the technology, the price will come way down, it'll be widely available in the civilian sector, but there'll ALWAYS be some lout at the theater who will insist on carrying a loud conversation on his cellphone in the middle of the movie! :-P

[TigerLikesRooster]

Well, consonants are controlled by lip, tongue, opening of the mouth. Could neck-senors also pick up muscle activities and neuro signals which affect lip, tongue, and mouth?

While it can be handy, it sounds rather bulky to wear, sensors around your neck and their processing units somewhere on the body. Is the current version more like a motorcycle helmet?

However, someday not long in the future they can be made smaller. We may see a new fashion emerging. People were pretty collars around their neck, which are commercial version of this machine. Would we be still wearing neckties? Or would it be out of fashion by then?

[yer gonna put yer eye out]

"One system.....relies on a sensor worn around the neck..."

When they get the weight of this sensor down from 800 lbs. to about 40, they'll sell like hotcakes...:0)

Also, they might want to work on eliminating the 220V AC cable.

[Graymatter]

"non-acoustic sensors that detect speech via the speaker's nerve and muscle activity, rather than sound itself.

We have these already. We call them "wives."

[Dallas59]

Can you hear me now...

[Route101]

...One system, being developed for DARPA by Rick Brown of Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, relies on a sensor worn around the neck called a tuned electromagnetic resonator collar (TERC)...that's nice, but can they develop an (RCL).A collar that lets me know when a radical socialist liberal is around?

[infocats]

DARPA is also pursuing an approach first developed at NASA's Ames lab, which involves placing electrodes called electromyographic sensors on the neck, to detect changes in impedance during speech. A neural network processes the data and identifies the pattern of words. The sensor can even detect subvocal or silent speech. The speech pattern is sent to a computerised voice generator that recreates the speaker's words.

Interesting. I hope it works better than Via Voice ;-)