VISVESVARAYA TECHNOLOGICAL

UNIVERSITY, BELAGAVI-590018,
KARNATAKA

Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering

2014-2015
A Seminar on
VOICE CONVERSION FOR SILENT SOUND TECHNOLOGY
Under the Guidance of :
Prof.N K Honnagowdar M.E
Presented By:
Lohit B.Dalal
2HN11EC020

CONTENTS
1.

INTRODUCTION

2.

NEED FOR SILENT SOUND

3.

METHODS

4.

ADVANTAGES

5.

DISADVANTAGES

6.

APPLICATIONS

7.

FUTURE PROSPECT

8.

CONCLUSION

9.

REFERENCES

INTRODUCTION

Amazing solution for those who had lost their voice but wish to speak
over phone.
It is a technology that helps you to transmit information without
using your vocal cords.
Detects every lip movement and Internally converts the electrical
pulses into sounds signals and sends them neglecting all other
surrounding noise.
Hence person on other end of phone receives the information in
audio.
Developed at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Expected in the next 5 - 10 years. Once launched, will have a drastic
effect and with no doubt, will be widely used.

NEED FOR SILENT SOUND

An end to embarrassed situations such as:

Whenever we are talking on a cell phone in a crowd,then

actually we are not talking, because of lots of disturbance
and noise around us.
In the case of an urgent call in a meeting, apologetically
rushing out of the room in order to answer or call the person
back.

METHODS

Two Methods for using Silent Sound Technology

1.Electromyography
2.Image Processing

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY (EMG)

Technique for evaluating and recording the electrical

activity produced by skeletal muscles.
Performed using an instrument called an
Electromyograph, to produce a record called an
Electromyogram.
Electromyograph detects the electrical potential
generated by muscle cells when these cells are
electrically or neurologically activated.
Monitored signals are converted into electrical signals
that can then be turned into speech.

EMG - PROCEDURE
There are two types of EMG
1.surface EMG
Four sensor are used they are vibration,
pressure, motion and electromagnetic
sensor.

2.Intramuscular EMG
A Needle electrode or a needle containing
two fine - wire electrodes is inserted
through the skin into the muscle tissue.
The insertional activity provides valuable
information about the state of the muscle
and its innervating nerve.

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY SIGNAL
GENERATION
Basic mechanism of Electromyography where the muscle activity is
analyzed by the Electromyograph to generate an Electromyogram

IMAGE PROCESSING(ULTRASOUND SSI)

Another way to obtain direct information on the

vocal tract configuration is via imaging techniques.
Ultrasound imagery is a non-invasive and clinically
safe procedure which makes possible the real-time
visualization
An ultrasound transducer, placed beneath the chin,
can provide a partial view of the tongue surface.

CONTD
Silent/ laryngectomized speaker
Camera

Lip Reader

Speech

Ultrasound
probe

Silent
Vocoder

Fig 1.Silent Sound Interface (SSI) using Image Processing

ADVANTAGES

Helping people who have lost their voice due to

illness or accident.
We can make silent calls even if we are standing
in crowded place.
Very useful for sharing confidential information
like secret PIN number on phone at public place.

DISADVANTAGES

It will be like always talking to robot.

This technology will be very costly for a common man.

APPLICATIONS

Silent Sound Techniques is applied in Military for

communicating secret/confidential matters to others.
This technology can be best utilized by astronauts &
dumb peoples.

FUTURE PROSPECT

Without having electrodes & sensors hanging all around

the face, these electrodes & sensors will incorporated in
to cell phones.
Features like lip reading based on image processing &
recognition these are incorporated in to cell phones
rather than using computers(Ultrasound SSI).

CONCLUSION

Silent Sound Technology, one of the recent trends in

the field of information technology implements
Talking Without Talking.
It will be one of the innovation and useful technology
and in mere future this technology will be use in our
day to day life.

REFERENCES
Honey Brijwani et al Int. Journal of Engineering
Research and Applications ISSN : 2248-9622, Vol. 4,
Issue 4( Version 9), April 2014
International Journal of Engineering Trends and
Technology (IJETT) Volume 9 Number14 Mar 2014
Shehjar Safayas , Kameshwar Sharma , Silent Sound
Technology- An End to Noisy Communication,
Speech Communication Vol. 1, Issue 9,November
2013
Michael Wand & Tanja Schultz ,Voice conversion for
silent sound technology,(ICASSP) KIT Germany 2011

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