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Silent Speech & Sub-Vocal research is picking up. EMG can detect speech since the 70s but It’s been hard to make it useful. Now though? There are even instructions for making your own . Check out some papers and AlterEgo from MIT for a fancy demo. It’s AI aka “Applied Statistics” making this possible - and I feel that it’s this aiding access that will be the biggest impact on our field than areas of language.
So Apple thoughts today from WWDC. The big news is still the AT announcements for iOS 17. But the long game is in the ARKit/MLKit work that has gone into making the ski goggles work (with hand, eye, voice). If that works well, that has excellent uses across their other platforms for AT
Thank Lord Brexit hasn’t affected long queues entering our neighbours 🤬 (sarcasm. if you didn’t realise). I am arriving in Brussels (with my bike - if it’s made it through the journey) for the BCI symposium (Postscript. took an hour 20 get through)