{"id":288596,"date":"2026-07-12T10:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/speech-privacy-hackaday\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T10:35:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T14:35:06","slug":"speech-privacy-hackaday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/speech-privacy-hackaday\/","title":{"rendered":"Speech Privacy | Hackaday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speech Privacy | Hackaday<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/hackaday.com\/tag\/speech-privacy\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-07-12 10:04:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: hackaday.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Speaking is much faster than typing, and while it\u2019s an increasingly convenient way to interact with computers, it\u2019s hardly private. Providing speech privacy in a way we haven\u2019t seen before is this prototype tongue-reading system that uses machine learning and ultrasound to read tongue movements and turn them into decoded speech. Not only can a user speak without emitting a sound, since it doesn\u2019t read sound waves it\u2019s completely immune to noisy environments.<\/p>\n

\"\"Tongues are a far richer source of speech data than reading lip and mouth movements.<\/p>\n

It turns out that tongue movements are a very rich source of information about speech, and an ultrasound probe under the chin takes very clear video of a tongue. With a dataset consisting of only around 50 hours of training data, the system has a 15.6% error rate and generalizes across different speakers (as long as they speak with similar accents).<\/p>\n

That error rate may seem high at first glance, but keep in mind this is for a prototype system built in a month around a relatively small training dataset. All indications are that better results are just a matter of better training.<\/p>\n

Probably the biggest drawback at the moment is the size of the ultrasound probe and the way it must be held under one\u2019s chin like a contact microphone, but at the moment the probe is an off-the-shelf model that is hardly optimized for either size, weight, or wearability. If the system seems promising enough, a probe resembling an adhesive patch might even be possible.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s certainly a different approach from others we\u2019ve seen in the past, including whispering while inhaling and reading lip and mouth movements.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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