SILENT SOUND

TECHNOLOGY
UNDER THE
GUIDANCE OF:Asst.Prof. U.M.KULKARNI

SUBMITTED BY:PRATEEK KUMAR

ANKUR AMITABH

2GI10CS069
2GI10CS009

Introduction
Silent Sound Technology is a technology
that helps you communicate without
uttering a sound.

It is a technology that will help reduce

noise pollution to a great extent.

The uses of this technology are immense for

people who are vocally challenged or have
been rendered mute due to accident.

Literature Survey
Literature survey is one of the most
important steps in system development
process.
Our literature survey included the
following articles:

According to Denby B., Schultz T., Honda K.,

Hueber T., Gilbert J.M., Brumberg J.S., Silent
Speech Interfaces, Speech Communication
Volume 52, Issue 4, 270-287, April 2010, by
acquiring sensor data from elements of the
human speech production process, silent speech
interface can produce a digital representation of
speech.

Hueber T, Benaroya E-L, Chollet G, Denby B,

Dreyfus G, Stone M. (2010), Development of a
silent speech interface driven by ultrasound and

Need for silent sound..

Allow mute people to communicate.
Answering a
environments.

call

in

very

noisy

Silent Sound Technology will put an end

to embarrassed situations such as:
A person answering his phone in a
meeting, lecture or performance, and
whispering loudly.
In the case of an urgent call,
apologetically rushing out of the
room in order to answer or call the
person back.

Origin..
The idea of interpreting silent speech
electronically or with a computer was
popularized in the 1968 Stanley Kubrick
science-fiction film 2001 : A Space
Odyssey.
In the 2010 CeBIT's "future park", a concept
"Silent Sound Technology was demonstrated.

This technology is being developed by

scientists of Karlsruhe Institute Of Technology
(KIT), Germany .

Methods
Silent Sound Technology uses a few methods
for
processing.
They are :

ELECTROMYOGRAPY(EM
G)
IMAGE PROCESSING

Electromyograph
y

Electromyography
The
Silent
Sound
electromyography.

Technology

uses

Electromyography(EMG) is a technique for

evaluating and recording the electrical activity
produced by skeletal muscles.
It is a technique which monitors tiny muscular
movements and pulses generated by it.
It is performed using
Electromyograph.

an instrument called

Working of
Electromyography
One or more needle electrodes is inserted through
the skin into the muscle tissue.

EMG
measures
the
electrical
activity
of
muscles(associated with speech) during rest and
contraction(while speaking).
During contraction of muscles , pulses are
generated which are converted into electrical
signals, using transducers.
These electrical signals are then compared with
pre-recorded signal pattern of spoken words and
transmitted.

Image Processing
Image processing is any form of signal processing
for which the input is an image, such as a
photograph or video frame; the output of image
processing may be either an image or, a set of
characteristics or parameters related to the
image.

In the silent sound technology the output of this

image processing is an audio record.

Most image-processing techniques involve

treating the image as a two-dimensional signal
and applying standard signal-processing
techniques to it.

Figure below shows how image processing works

in case of silent sound technology.

Applications
Helping people talk who have lost their voice due to
illness or accident.
It can be applied in Military for communicating
secret/confidential matters.
Native speakers can silently utter a sentence in their
language, and the receivers can hear the translated
sentence in their language.
Allow people to make silent and confidential calls
without bothering others, even in crowded places.
As we know in space, there is no medium for sound
to travel, therefore this technology can be best
utilized by astronauts.

Limitations

The translation technology works for languages

like English, French and German, but for
languages like Chinese, where different tones can
hold many different meanings, poses a problem.
From security point of view recognising who you
are talking to gets complicated.
Even differentiating between people and
emotions cannot be done.
This device presently needs nine leads to be
attached to our face which is quite impractical to
make it usable.

Future
Silent sound
technology gives way to a bright
Prospects

future to speech recognition technology, from

simple voice commands to memorandum
dictated over the phone all this is fairly possible
in noisy public places.

Without having electrodes hanging all around

your face, these electrodes will be incorporated
into cell phones.
It may have features like lip reading based on
image recognition & processing rather than
electromyography.
Nano-technology will be a mentionable step
towards making the device handy.

Conclusion
Engineers claim that the device is working
with 99 percent efficiency.
Silent Sound Technology, one of the recent
trends in the field of Information technology
implements Talking Without

Talking.
It will be one of the most innovative and
useful technology and in mere future this
technology will be of use in day to day life.

REFERENCES
[1] Denby, B., Schultz, T., Honda, K., Hueber, T., Gilbert,
J.M., Brumberg, J.S., Silent Speech Interfaces, Speech
Communication Volume 52, Issue 4, 270-287, April 2010.

[2] Nigg B.M., & Herzog W., 1999. Biomechanics of the

Musculo-Skeletal system, Wiley, Page 349.

[3] Hueber T, Benaroya E-L, Chollet G, Denby B, Dreyfus G,

Stone M. (2010), Development of a silent speech interface
driven by ultrasound and optical images of the tongue and
lips, Speech Communication, Volume 52, Issue 4, 288300,
April 2010.

[4] http://www.telecomspace.com/content/cebit-2010silent-sound-technology-endless-possibilities

[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromyography

[6] http://www.techpark.net/2010/03/04/silent-sound-

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