AlterEgo
 | A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. (April 2018) |
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| Established | 1985[1] |
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| Budget | $ 50 million[2] |
Field of research | Technology, multimedia, sciences, art, design |
| Director | Joi Ito |
| Location | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States |
| Website | media.mit.edu |
AlterEgo is a wearable silent speech output-input device developed by MIT Media Lab,[3] it's like having Alexa glued onto your face. The device is attached around the head, neck, and jawline and translates your brain speech center impulse input into words on your computer nearby, without vocalization.
Description
The device consists of 7 small electrodes that attach at various points around the jaw-line and mouth to receive the electrical inputs from your brain. It looks similar to a sling for your head neck and jaw.
Background
Scientists, Arnav Kapur of Fluid Interfaces group at MIT Media Lab "AlterEgo: A Personalized Wearable Silent Speech Interface", with Shreyas Kapur and Pattie Maes designed the prototype and presented the work at International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces back in March 2018, in Tokyo. On standard testing it had a 92 percent accuracy rate of conversion of verbal thought to text, virtually on par or better than Siri and other speech input devices.
External links
- Futurism Magazine
- International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- MIT Media Lab
References
- ^ "Inventing the future" - Corporate brochure
- ^ Overview of the MIT
- ^ Ossola, Alexandra (April 5, 2018). "This Crazy Gadget Helps You "Talk" To Your Computer Without Words". Futurism. Retrieved April 5, 2018.