PARIS: A new adhesive patch could one day help people with voice disorders speak again, by using artificial intelligence to read the movements of their throat muscles and turn them into speech, researchers said on Tuesday.
By: AFPThe patch can convert movements of larynx muscles into electrical signals, which are translated into speech by AI. A new adhesive patch could one day help people with voice disorders speak again, by using artificial intelligence to read the movements of their throat muscles and turn them into speech, researchers said on Tuesday.The small, stretchy patch is powered solely by the muscle movements, the US-based researchers revealed in a study in Nature Communications.
Then a speaker plays the sentences the person intended to say aloud – although the prototype can currently only relay certain pre-recorded phrases.Crucially, the patch works without needing to pick up on the vibrations of a person’s vocal cords, meaning it would help restore the speech of people with damaged vocal cords, lead study author Ziyuan Che of the University of California, Los Angeles told AFP.
Existing treatments for serious voice problems, such as handheld devices like an electrolarynx, can be “inconvenient, uncomfortable, or invasive”, the researchers said.The waterproof patch is roughly the size of a large coin and weighs just 7g. Che compared its texture to that of a rubber glove. They read out the phrases while standing, walking and running, to show the patch worked while on the move. The device accurately predicted what the volunteers were saying about 95% of the time, according to the study.Some words that move throat muscles in a similar manner – such as the word “make” and the name “Mark” – could be difficult for the patch to tell apart, Che noted.
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