I came across the AlterEgo years ago when MIT first published their article on a study by Eric J. Wadkins. Years later they still haven’t commercialized their subvocalization tech. I’m getting sick, tired and annoyed of waiting so I’ve decided I’m going to build my own version. I shall name my knock-off Silent Synth (might change this name later).
So were to begin? I started off by researching what I’ll need hardware wise. One of the second things I came across was the PiEEG project. PiEEG can work with ECG/EEG/EMG signals so it should in theory work for this and by going off the study a 16 electrodes capacity should be more than sufficient for the purposes of detecting subvocalization as they only needed 8 electrodes in this MIT study.
to be continued… (I need to wait for the hardware to arrive)
Links/Citations
- https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/123121/1128187233-MIT.pdf?sequence=1
- https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00681-6
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09127-3
- https://www.elecrow.com/pieeg-16.html
- https://pieeg.com/kit-to-measure-emg-ecg-ekg/
- https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/172/17230108.pdf
- https://chrisparnin.me/pdf/emg.pdf
- https://www.jsr.org/hs/index.php/path/article/download/4906/2342
- http://web.archive.org/web/20250206040707/https://hsi.arc.nasa.gov/publications/20051028105746_IH-054%20Staal.pdf
- https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/aging-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnagi.2025.1536658/pdf
- https://psychology.sfsu.edu/sites/default/files/documents/APS2014_CHO.pdf
- https://thesai.org/Downloads/Volume12No3/Paper_65-Recent_Advancement_in_Speech_Recognition.pdf
- https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01027072
- https://twu-ir.tdl.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/957a3962-04d5-4cd1-be85-0e35bb57dae2/content
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/20197630
- https://www.ijssh.net/papers/546-K009.pdf
- https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/0-387-24156-6_9
- https://ubwp.buffalo.edu/apal-pfordresher/wp-content/uploads/sites/79/2023/06/Greenspon_etal_2023_APC.pdf
- https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20090040757/downloads/20090040757.pdf
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.02110
- https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s41133-016-0001-z.pdf
- https://ijssh.org/papers/546-K009.pdf
- https://resources.pcb.cadence.com/blog/2022-transmission-rate-vs-bandwidth-in-bluetooth-technology
- https://chatgpt.com/share/68cf2247-9720-8012-bde6-e73cfe08eeac