Silent Speech Interfaces

B. Denby (1, 2) , T. Schultz (3) , K. Honda (4) , Thomas Hueber (1) , J.M. Gilbert (5) , J.S. Brumberg (6)

1 Laboratoire d'Électronique de l'ESPCI
2 UPMC - Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6
3 CSL - Cognitive Systems Laboratory
4 CIS - Cognitive Information Science Laboratories
5 Department of Engineering
6 Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems [Boston]

The possibility of speech processing in the absence of an intelligible acoustic signal has given rise to the idea of a ', to be used as an aid for the speech handicapped, or as part of a communications system operating in silence-required or high-background-noise environments. The article first outlines the emergence of the silent speech interface from the fields of speech production, automatic speech processing, speech pathology research, and telecommunications privacy issues, and then follows with a presentation of demonstrator systems based on seven different types of technologies. A concluding section underlining some of the common challenges faced by silent speech interface researchers, and ideas for possible future directions, is also provided.

Mots clés: silent speech; speech pathologies; cellular telephones; speech recognition; speech synthesis

Domaines: Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]

B. Denby, T. Schultz, K. Honda, Thomas Hueber, J.M. Gilbert, et al.. Silent Speech Interfaces. Speech Communication, 2010, 52 (4), pp.270. ⟨10.1016/j.specom.2009.08.002⟩. ⟨hal-00616227⟩