Engineering News Blog

Engineering News

Latest news of interest to engineers. Sourced from GlobalSpec's Engineering News

Previous in Blog: Sulfur Emissions Dropped As Utilities Idled Old Coal Plants   Next in Blog: Two-Armed Robot Takes On Risky Lab Work
Close
Close
Close
2 comments
Rate Comments: Nested

Start-up Attempts to Convert Prof Hawking's Brainwaves Into Speech

Posted July 07, 2012 5:08 PM

From BBC News - Technology:

A US start-up releases its analysis of Prof Stephen Hawking's brainwaves, potentially paving the way to new speech synthesis equipment.

Read the whole article

Reply

Interested in this topic? By joining CR4 you can "subscribe" to
this discussion and receive notification when new comments are added.
Guru

Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: South of Minot North Dakota
Posts: 8376
Good Answers: 775
#1

Re: Start-up Attempts to Convert Prof Hawking's Brainwaves Into Speech

07/08/2012 6:45 AM

Think about what you think about all day that you would really rather no one else ever heard.

Now think about a computer saying those things out loud all the time. Would you really want the voice in your head to become the voice outside your head that everyone hears?

(Or maybe its just me.)

Reply
Guru

Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: by the beach in Florida
Posts: 33392
Good Answers: 1817
#2
In reply to #1

Re: Start-up Attempts to Convert Prof Hawking's Brainwaves Into Speech

07/08/2012 2:26 PM

I think this would equate to typing out words rather than direct interpretation of thought, which would be pictures mostly, and probably just parts and pieces of pictures, at extremely poor resolution I would imagine...This is probably more along the lines of the thought controlled wheelchair we saw just recently....and combined with the currently eye controlled scrolling text selection method the professor is now using....so your nasty disgusting revolting incriminating thoughts are safe,, for now...except for those who can read thoughts....BBWWWAHAHAH eeewwwh, you PIG! ,,oh, wait,, that was me...nevermind....

__________________
All living things seek to control their own destiny....this is the purpose of life
Reply
Reply to Blog Entry 2 comments

Previous in Blog: Sulfur Emissions Dropped As Utilities Idled Old Coal Plants   Next in Blog: Two-Armed Robot Takes On Risky Lab Work

Advertisement