SILENT SOUND

TECHNOLOGY
PRESENTED BY
K.DEVI PRIYA RAJESWARI
ECE FINAL YEAR
11211A0430

Contents
Introduction

Need For Silent Sound Technology

What It Is??

Recent Events

Methods

Electromyography (Emg)

Working Of Electromyography

Image Processing

Image Processing Techniques

Applications

Restrictions

Future Prospects

Conclusion

Introduction

The word Cell Phone has become greatest buzz word in Cellular Communication
industry.

There are lots and lots of technology that tries to reduce the Noise pollution and make the
environment a better place to live in.

This presentation tells about a new technology known as Silent Sound Technology that
will put an end to Noise pollution.

Need For Silent Sound Technology

An end to embarrassed situations such as:

A person answering his silent, but vibrating cell phone in a meeting, lecture or
performance, and whispering loudly, I cant talk to you right now .

In the case of an urgent call, apologetically rushing out of the room in order to
answer or call the person back.

What it is..?

It is a technology that helps you to transmit information without using

your vocal cords.

This technology aims to notice lip movements & transform them into a
computer generated sound that can be transmitted over a phone.

Hence person on other end of phone receives the information in audio.

Recent events

This year at CeBET, one of the largest trade fair, a new concept
called SILENT SOUND TECHNOLOGY was demonstrated.

This technology is being developed by scientists of Karlsruhe

Institute of Technology ( KIT ), Germany.

Methods

Silent Sound Technology is processed through some

methods. They are:

Electromyograpy(EMG)

Image Processing

ways or

Electromyography

The Silent Sound Technology uses electromyography, monitoring

tiny muscular movements that occur when we speak.

Monitored signals are converted into electrical pulses that can

then be turned into speech, without a sound uttered.

It is a technique which monitors tiny muscular movements and

pulses generated by it . The transducers involved converts the
pulses into electric signals .

Electromyography sensors attached to the face records the

electric signals produced by the facial muscles, compare them
with pre recorded signal pattern of spoken words

When there is a match that sound is transmitted on to the other

end of the line and person at the other end listen to the spoken
words.

Electromyography

Working of Electromyography

A needle containing two fine-wired electrodes is inserted through the skin into
the muscle tissue.

Normal muscles at rest make certain, normal electrical sounds when the needle is
inserted into them. Then the electrical activity when the muscle is at rest is
observed.

Each electrode track gives only a very local picture of the activity of the whole
muscle. Because skeletal muscles differ in the inner structure, the electrode has to
be placed at various locations to obtain an accurate signal.

Thus by this way the speech can be communicated without sound.

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.

Image Processing Techniques :

Analysis of remotely sensed data is done using various image
processing techniques and methods that includes:

Analog image processing

Digital image processing

Analog image processing techniques are applied to hard copy data

such as photographs or printouts. It adopts certain elements of
interpretation, such as primary element, spatial arrangement etc.,

Digital Image Processing

Digital Image Processing involves a collection of techniques for

the manipulation of digital images by computers. It contains some
flaws. To overcome the flaws and deficiencies in order to get the
originality of the data, it needs to undergo several steps of
processing.

Digital Image Processing undergoes three general steps:

Pre-processing
Display and Image enhancement
Information extraction

Pre-processing
Pre-processing consists of those operations that prepare data for subsequent analysis that
attempts to correct or compensate for systematic errors
Image enhancement
The aim of image enhancement is to improve the interpretability or perception of information
in digital data for human viewers.
Information extraction
In this remotely sensed data is subjected to quantitative analysis.
IE is used in evaluating, and comparing different Natural Language Processing
technologies.
The final result of the analysis consists of maps or images, data and a report. Then these
are converted to corresponding signals.

Applications

The Technology opens up a host of application such as mentioned

below:

As we know in space there is no medium for sound to travel

therefore this technology can be best utilized by astronauts.

Helping people who have lost their voice due to illness or

accident.

We can make silent calls even if we are standing in a crowded

place.

Restrictions

Translation into majority of languages but for languages such as

Chinese different tone holds different meaning, facial movements
being the same. Hence this technology is difficult to apply in such
situations.

From security point of view recognizing who you are talking to

gets complicated.

Even differentiating between people and emotions cannot be

done. This means you will always feel you are talking to a robot.

Future Prospects
Silent

sound technology gives way to a bright future to speech recognition

technology.

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.

Also

reducing the time taken to process the image in digital image processing.

Conclusion

Silent Sound Technology, one of the recent trends in the field of

Information technology implements Talking Without Talking.

Engineers claim that the device is working with

efficiency.

It will be one of the innovative and useful technology and in

mere future this technology will be of use in day to day life.

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