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i'm really excited to see progress being made in this space. subvocal speech recognition seems to be an underfunded area of research. my sense is that it has t
by khimaros 3y ago
i'm really excited to see progress being made in this space. subvocal speech recognition seems to be an underfunded area of research.
my sense is that it has the potential to make hands free interaction with our devices in public spaces less obnoxious and, consequently, more socially acceptable.
however, i notice that the article doesn't mention anything about dictionary size, which is a very important consideration for a tool of this kind.
- graphe 3y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_english https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_english this communicates English efficiently with 850 words. I don't think it's basic English is any good but I can see them making simplified English the lingua franca to boost 'literacy rates' in the future.
- thorum 3y ago> The research team demonstrated the system’s accuracy by having the participants pronounce five sentences — both aloud and voicelessly — including “Hi, Rachel, how are you doing today?” and “I love you!” (…) Going forward, the research team plans to continue enlarging the vocabulary of the device through machine learning and to test it in people with speech disorders. It's a proof of concept at this stage but very cool.
- dontreact 3y agoWhile subvocal is cool and would allow for speech in more places, something that’s earlier on the tech tree and that I would like to see is just robust lipreading. I already am comfortable talking to my phone quietly using my AirPods while looking at my screen, but it seems like in loud public places the accuracy becomes unusable. I imagine it could be easily recovered by the additional signal of lipreading.