This new device can now transcribe words in your head

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Subject	This new device can now transcribe words in your head
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This new device can now transcribe words in your head

PTI
dnaindia.com
April 9, 2018

MIT scientists, led by an Indian-origin student, have
developed a computer system that can transcribe words that
users say in their heads. The system consists of a wearable
device and an associated computing system. Electrodes in
the device pick up neuromuscular signals in the jaw and
face that are triggered by internal verbalisations --
saying words 'in your head' -- but are undetectable to the
human eye.

The signals are fed to a machine-learning system that has
been trained to correlate particular signals with
particular words. The device also includes a pair of bone-
conduction headphones, which transmit vibrations through
the bones of the face to the inner ear. Since they do not
obstruct the ear canal, the headphones enable the system to
convey information to the user without interrupting
conversation or otherwise interfering with the user's
auditory experience.

The device is thus part of a complete silent-computing
system that lets the user undetectably pose and receive
answers to difficult computational problems. In one of the
researchers' experiments, for instance, subjects used the
system to silently report opponents' moves in a chess game
and just as silently receive computer-recommended
responses. "The motivation for this was to build an IA
device -- an intelligence-augmentation device," said Arnav
Kapur, a graduate student at the MIT, who led the
development of the new system.

This would allow one to interact with computer devices
without having to physically type into them, researchers
said. The idea that internal verbalisations have physical
correlates has been around since the 19th century, and it
was seriously investigated in the 1950s. However,
subvocalisation as a computer interface is largely
unexplored. The researchers' first step was to determine
which locations on the face are the sources of the most
reliable neuromuscular signals.

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