Silent speech recognition as an alternative communication device for persons with laryngectomy

GS Meltzner, JT Heaton, Y Deng… - … ACM transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Each year thousands of individuals require surgical removal of the larynx (voice box) due to
trauma or disease, and thereby require an alternative voice source or assistive device to …

Signal acquisition and processing techniques for sEMG based silent speech recognition

GS Meltzner, G Colby, Y Deng… - … Conference of the IEEE …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
sEMG based silent speech recognition systems seek to bypass the limitations of acoustic
speech recognition by measuring and interpreting muscle activity of the facial and neck …

[PDF][PDF] Towards a practical silent speech recognition system

Y Deng, JT Heaton, GS Meltzner - Fifteenth annual conference of …, 2014 - isca-archive.org
Our recent efforts towards developing a practical surface electromyography (sEMG) based
silent speech recognition interface have resulted in significant advances in the hardware …

Signal processing advances for the MUTE sEMG-based silent speech recognition system

Y Deng, G Colby, JT Heaton… - MILCOM 2012-2012 …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Military speech communication often needs to be conducted in very high noise
environments. In addition, there are scenarios, such as special-ops missions, for which it is …

[HTML][HTML] Voiceless Bangla vowel recognition using sEMG signal

SS Mostafa, MA Awal, M Ahmad, MA Rashid - SpringerPlus, 2016 - Springer
Some people cannot produce sound although their facial muscles work properly due to
having problem in their vocal cords. Therefore, recognition of alphabets as well as …

Hypnotic computer interface (hypCI) using GEORGIE: An approach to design discrete voice user interfaces

R Ramadas, A Chowdhury - Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy …, 2020 - content.iospress.com
Abstract Voice User Interfaces have become popular with the advent of Alexa, Google
Home, Cortana and other commercial speech recognition interfaces; however, the privacy of …

Review on Silent Speech Recognition Using EMG Sensors and Voices After Laryngectomy

PD Bhavani, V Preethi, D Nandhan - Electronic Systems and Intelligent …, 2020 - Springer
In this paper, there are four ways of speech rehabilitation techniques after laryngectomy.
They are voice prosthesis, esophageal voice, electronic larynx, and silent articulation. After …

A wearable, real-time sEMG gesture classifier based on E-tattoo and CDF-CNN for prosthetic control

C Xu, X Qu, H Liang, D Chen - 2023 IEEE 6th Information …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Bionic prosthetic hands are essential for the disabled to deal with most affairs of life
independently. The surface electromyography (sEMG) is considered as a developing …

Channel reduction in speech recognition system based on surface electromyography

NS Jong, M Kiatweerasakul… - 2018 15th …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The disadvantage of surface electromyography (sEMG) application is the number of
electrodes that affects to undesirable use in practical. So, this research focuses on studying …

Cross-correlation evaluated muscle co-ordination for speech production

D Joshi, D Bhatia - Journal of Medical Engineering & Technology, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
In this investigation the jaw–mouth–lip (JML) co-ordination is quantified using cross-
correlation (CC) between facial electromyography (EMG) while speaking words 'zero to …