A neckband that translates thought into speech by picking up nerve signals has been used to demonstrate the first voiceless phone call.
With careful training a person can send nerve signals to their vocal cords without making a sound. These signals are picked up by the neckband and relayed wirelessly to a computer that converts them into words spoken by a computerised voice.
Article Link: www.newscientist.com
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Wow, that’s pretty cool. It seemed a bit slow to respond there but the concept is awesome, it can only get better from here.
If the software is processing what the person wants to say then there is no reason it can not output it in different languages too. Here comes Star Trek’s Universal Translator.
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Yeah I’m sure the processing time will get much faster, and yeah its the future of the universal translator, which will make traveling the world much more fun 🙂