Subvocal Devices


p283-284

Holosphere "She took a subvocal input device from its rack and placed the attached sensors on her throat, jaw, and temples.

...

She didn't have to speak aloud, only intend to. The subvocal read nerve signals, letter her enter words by just beginning to will them.

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Tapping certain teeth made colors shift in the tanks and screens. A yawn sent cyclones spinning within a blue expanse."

 

p 340

Biosphere "One muttered word and the desk projector displayed a cutaway view of a human cranium."


Status

Likely

 

Reality

Describe the prediction in terms of what has happened in the last fifteen or so years.

 

References

  1. http://www.theaudeo.com/?action=technology
  2. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2004/subvocal/subvocal.html
  3. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2004/04_18AR.html
  4. U. S. Patent No. 7,574,357 -- Applications of sub-audible speech recognition based upon electromyographic signals 
  5. http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/project/nel/projects/subvocal-speech/