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March 15, 2008

Voiceless Speech

Holy Moly! This is so trippy it's not even funny. Looks like it could be a joke, but it's not.

"A neckband that translates thought into speech by picking up nerve signals has been used to demonstrate a "voiceless" phone call for the first time.

With careful training a person can send nerve signals to their vocal cords without making a sound. These signals are picked up by the neckband and relayed wirelessly to a computer that converts them into words spoken by a computerised voice."

http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn13449
http://theaudeo.com/

The craziest part is that you can look up stuff on the internet just by thinking about it...

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