Crowdsourcing reveals prior and concurrent research in silent speech
6 Nov 2 4:15 PM · 9d ago · 8 comments · 1 source · development 6 of 8
Commenters cited existing projects (LipFlow, HushKey, Chaplin, LipNet.ai) and noted Cornell has had students working on variants for ~5 years. One raised concerns about RF exposure near eyes/brain and battery life.
“I'd be concerned both about battery life, and the long term health consequences of having an RF chip so close to my eyes/brain.”
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> "you don't actually have to move your lips or even open your mouth for this to work ... It's a bit weird to do"In the video Dave just finished the training mode and is silently moving his lips, which seems pretty natural to me. I just spent a minute trying to do 'internal speech' (as many elements of speech as possible with lips closed). It does…
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Google wanted to put this tech into its phone, but then was convinced it was a bad idea due to privacy invasion. It could for instance correlate sexual arousal with any phone interaction (video chat, youtube, display ads, etc), giving google and advertisers the ability to make custom targeted ads for specific users, as it would "know your…
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Really cool. I’m especially drawn to this as the time from thought to mouthing the words is so much faster than speaking out loud, for me.But I’d be concerned both about battery life, and the long term health consequences of having an RF chip so close to my eyes/brain. Have you explored these aspects much?
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Isn't a "Show HN" supposed to be reserved for things that people can experiment with and give feedback on? This doesn't seem sufficiently interactive, and the sales pitch at the end seems odd for a Show HN, at least to me.
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This is it! I was thinking about this a few weeks ago. None of the big tech gets this. If this works, damn, that's the future wearable I want. But why glasses? can you do this equally well with a earphone form factor?
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Is the idea to add a display element like even g2? Seems like this is half of what could be a good product.Being able to work on a commute and code (looking at the glasses's screen) would be a killer application.
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Can this be made to work offline, without a cloud server? I wouldn't want my words to be passed through an API, but run locally on device. I don't mind buying fast GPUs for this.
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Combined with TTS, this can give a voice to people with certain types of mutism.
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