Restoring Speech Following Total Removal of the Larynx

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2017:242:314-321.

Abstract

By speech articulator movement and training a transformation to audio we can restore the power of speech to someone who has lost their larynx. We sense changes in magnetic field caused by movements of small magnets attached to the lips and tongue. The sensor transformation uses recurrent neural networks.

Keywords: Speech restoration; permanent magnet articulography; silent speech interfaces; speech synthesis.

MeSH terms

  • Humans
  • Laryngectomy*
  • Larynx
  • Lip
  • Movement
  • Speech Production Measurement*
  • Speech*
  • Tongue