Conversations do not need words

A new technology announced at the CeBIT fair identifies the movement of the lips and turns them into voices that help mobile users talk easily around noisy surroundings.

At CeBIT, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) introduces "silent sounds" that can record electrodes, track the movements of the smallest lips and convert them into electrical impulses. After that, the signal is converted into speech sent to the other end.

In order to sense the movement of the lips, the KIT team applied the electrodes to the skin. Michael Wand, an expert at the institute, said: "These electrodes are outside but in the future they will be integrated into the cell phone.

By electromyography, the lips are turned into speech.

The new technology opens up a range of useful applications ranging from helping people who are not capable of pronouncing congenital or accidental accusations to communicating with their PINs on their ATMs without having to worry about them. eavesdrop.

Even so, KIT also counts on automatic translation based on artificial intelligence technology. Then, communication between people who do not have the same language is easy.

According to the KIT test, the speech-to-voice conversion device is still operating at 100% accuracy. "We are going to go through the technical difficulties, maybe in the next five or 10 years, this technology will become familiar to mobile phone users," said Michael Wand.