AlterEgo as a speech interface for ALS patients
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Author(s)
Wu, Matthew(Matthew T.)
Advisor(s)
Pattie Maes.
Alternative Title
Alter Ego as a speech interface for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients
Date Issued
2019
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
AlterEgo is a wearable, silent-speech device that is able to detect what word a user is attempting to say without discernible movement of the face or mouth. At it's current stage, the device can handle a vocabulary of about 10 words and this is enough to create usable applications for patients with speech impediments or speech loss. After thoroughly testing across a series of conditions with multiple patients per condition, we have found ALS to be the best suited condition for our system and a quick & urgent communication device to be its best application for this population. We present AlterEgo as a real-time, speech assistive technology and have made modifications so that ALS patients can effectively and independently use the device.
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This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2019
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 51-52).
Subjects
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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