SILENT SOUND

TECHNOLOGY

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CONTENTS
 Introduction
 Need for Silent Sound Technology
 Methods
 Electromyography
 Image Processing
 Applications
 Future Scope
 Conclusion
 References

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INTRODUCTION
 Amazing technology for those who lost
their voice
 Transmit sound without using vocal
cords
 Receives electrical impulses by noticing
lip movements
 Electrical impulses are converted into
sound signals
 Implements talking without talking
 End to noise pollution
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NEED FOR SILENT SOUND
 Communication in noisy place
 Make silent calls without disturbing others
 Efficient solution for those who lost their
voice and wish to speak
 Transmit confidential information through
phone silently
 Can avoid rushing out of room for
answering an urgent call

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METHODS
Two methods
 Electromyography(EMG)
 Image Processing
• Analog image processing
• Digital image processing

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ELECTROMYOGRAPHY
 Technique for recording electrical activity
of muscles when we speak
 Electromyograph detects the electric
potential generated by muscle cells
 EMG translates these signals into graphs
 Instrument - Electromyograph
 Output graph - Electromyogram

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WORKING OF EMG

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EMG

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WORKING OF EMG
 A needle with two fine wired electrodes
are inserted through the skin
 Monitors tiny muscular movements that
occur while speaking
 Monitored signals are converted into
electrical signals
 Signals are converted into speech without
a sound uttered
 Electromyographic sensors are used to
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IMAGE PROCESSING
 Physical process used to convert an digital
data signal into a physical image
 Minimal corrections and calibrations
 Large mainframe computers are used for
data manipulation
 Two dimensional images
 Use silent sound interface
 Interface consist of probe, camera, lip
reader, silent vocoder
 Ultrasound probe generate acoustic signals
and detect returned signals
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IMAGE PROCESSING

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SILENT SOUND INTERFACE

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WORKING
 Ultrasound probe coupled with camera
captures lip and tongue movements
 Captured images are given to lip reader
 Lip reader compares the captured and
earlier stored image of spoken words
 Matching of images produces visual
speech signal
 Visual speech signals are given to silent
vocoder which converts visual speech
signals into spoken words
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IMAGE PROCESSING- TYPES
 Types of image processing techniques:
◦ Analog image processing
◦ Digital image processing
1. Pre –processing
2. Image enhancement
3. Information extraction

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ANALOG IMAGE PROCESSING
 Technique is applied to hard copy data such
as photographs or printouts
 Applied in two dimensional images
 Adopts certain elements of interpretation
such as:
1.Primary elements
2.Spatial arrangements
3.Contextual elements
 Less efficient
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 IMAGE INTERPRETATION:
ELEMENTS
Primary Black and white ,Skin
elements tone, Height, shadow

Spatial
Size, shape, texture,
arrangement
pattern

Contextual
elements Size, association

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DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING
 Manipulation of electronic data to produce
a specific data
 Use computer algorithm to perform image
processing
 More efficient
 Mainly consist of three steps:
1. Pre-processing
2. Image enhancement
3. Information extraction
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PREPROCESSING
 Operations that prepare data for
subsequent analysis
 Use feature extraction to reduce
dimensionality of data
 Feature extraction is a special form of
dimensionality reduction
 Reduces the number of variables that
must be examined

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IMAGE ENHANCEMENT
 Improves the quality of image by
increasing apparent contrast
 Common enhancements include image
reduction, image rectification, image
magnification, contrast adjustment etc
 Type of enhancement techniques depends
on digital data

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INFORMATION EXTRACTION
 Data is subjected to quantitative analysis
 Necessary to evaluate accuracy by
comparing the datas
 Finally datas are converted to
corresponding signals

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ADVANTAGES
 Useful for who have lost their voice
 Can make silent calls in crowded place
 End to noise pollution
 Can be translated into any language

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DISADVANTAGES
 Needs nine leads attached to face
 Painful process
 Translation into Chineese language is
difficult
 Differentiating between people and
emotions cannot be done
 More complicated

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APPLICATIONS
 Used by astronauts
 Used for military purposes
 Useful for dump people
 Communication without bothering and
disturbing others
 Can share a secret PIN no., or credit card
no. on the phone as there is no one
eavesdrop

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FUTURE SCOPE
 Future to speech recognition technology
 Electrodes can be incorporated into cell
phones
 Lip reading based on image recognition &
processing rather than electromyography
 Nano technology can make the device
handy

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CONCLUSION
 One of the most innovative and useful
technology
 Better way of communication in noisy
public places
 Implements “talking without talking”
 Engineers claims that the device is
working with 99 percent efficiency
 Innovative and useful technology which
put an end to noise pollution
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REFERENCES
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page no. 694-696, Mar 2014.
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Rastogi, “Talking Without Talking”, Journal of Engineering Research
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[6] Mudit Bansal,“Silent Sound Technology using Electromyography”,
International Journal in Multidisciplinary and Academic Research
(SSIJMAR) Vol. 2, No. 2, April 2013.
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THANK YOU

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