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Speak Your Mind

by Matthew Johnston • 13th March 2008 • 3 comments

Fed up with speaking to people? Well those wacky and yet brilliant scientists (you know the ones) have come up with a fairly amazing piece of technology that translates peoples thoughts into speech. If you'll excuse the journey away from strictly music news for a second, we think this is pretty cool.

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Fed up with speaking to people? Well those wacky and yet brilliant scientists (you know the ones) have come up with a fairly amazing piece of technology that translates peoples thoughts into speech. If you'll excuse the journey away from strictly music news for a second, we think this is pretty cool.

No, it's not an early April Fools joke, its really real. On a basic level, the device is a neckband that translates the nerve impulses which tell your larynx to 'speak' into a computerised voice. The developers say that currently its got a limited range of vocabulary and there's an obvious delay on the recognition, but its still pretty fantastic.

There could be wide ranging applications of this, helpful for sufferers of Motor Neurone Syndrome (like Stephen Hawking) or for conducting a phone conversation in complete silence. But take the applications to an extreme, imagine a day where you go to a club to witness a DJ who simply stands behind a desk and just 'thinks' records into playing. Or how about instantaneous mental information transfer via the internet? Resistance is futile. Check the video (excuse the glitchy audio, but its in the original) below...

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  • scutch @ 13 Mar 2008 16:56

    i can see the broken homes already

  • Laurty @ 13 Mar 2008 18:03

    That's crazy!!

    But what was do you receive the info you're looking for? Like when you're 'thinking' "Where's the bus station" and it goes up to the internet, where do you receive the answer?

  • Matthew @ 13 Mar 2008 18:22

    Eventually straight back to an implant in your ear which creates the sound of the answer without actually creating the sound!

    Or even further into the future, the answer comes back in nerve impulses, so it recreates the actions of a 'memory'.

    Scary stuff!

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