Speech continues to be in the forefront of the Hearing Seminar.
This week Sid Fels will be presenting his work on GloveTalk, a system that translates hand gestures into speech. This talk describes his PhD thesis work with Geoffrey Hinton. Glove-TalkII is a system which translates hand gestures to speech through an adaptive interface. Hand gestures are mapped continuously to 10 control parameters of a parallel formant speech synthesizer. The mapping allows the hand to act as an artificial vocal tract that produces speech in real time.