Another gadget in the voice to text league, helps you ‘talk’ to your computer without words

Tokyo, April 5: Hey you! Ever wish your technology was more intrusive? You love voice-to-text, but it’s just too public? Don’t worry, the researchers have got you something more innovative which will help you put your thoughts to words and then to text. Naming it as AlterEgo, this gadget will undoubtedly give competition to its counterparts.

Whenever you think of words, they’re silently, gradually, transmitted to your mouth. More specifically, signals arrive at the muscles that control your mouth. And those signals aren’t imperceptible to a highly sensitive computer.

 

The researchers call this device the AlterEgo. It’s got seven electrodes positioned around the mouth to pick up these signals. The data that the electrodes pick up goes through several rounds of processing before being transmitted wirelessly to a device awaiting instruction nearby. Oh, and it’s got bone conduction headphones so that devices can respond.

AlterEgo has the following advantages, according to the researchers, this gadget is not invasive. But it is 92% accurate and not to forget its portable similar to the one wherein you use Bluetooth devices. Unlike direct brain readings, it can’t read your private thoughts

The closest comparison to this system is a device you can address in your normal speech, like Siri or Alexa. But, terrifyingly, this is not scientists’ first attempt at creating a more direct way to transmit our thoughts to computers.