04-11-2013, 01:58 AM
You are in a movie theater or noisy restaurant or a bus or a train etc where there is lot of noise around is big issue while talking on a mobile pho-ne. But in the future this problem is eliminated with ”silent sounds”
It is a technology that helps you to transmit information without using your vocal cords.
This technology aims to notice lip movements & transform them into a computer generated sound that can be transmitted over a phone.
Hence person on other end of phone receives the information in audio.
Humans are capable of producing and understanding whispered speech in quiet environments at remarkably low signal levels. Most people can also understand a few unspoken words by lip-reading
The idea of interpreting silent speech electronically or with a computer has been around for a long time, and was popularized in the 1968 Stanley Kubrick science-fiction film ‘‘2001 – A Space Odyssey”
A major focal point was the DARPA Advanced Speech Encoding Program (ASE) of the early 2000’s, which funded research on low bit rate speech synthesis ‘‘with acceptable intelligibility, quality, and aural speaker recognizability in acoustically harsh environments”