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Silent Ear and Tongue-Tracking Tech Can Control Wearables (thestack.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Scientists at Georgia Tech are developing silent speech systems that can enable fast and hands-free communication with wearable devices, controlled by the user's tongue and ears. As seen with open source project Eyedrivomatic, the researchers want to apply the technology to provide a device control solution for people who are disabled. They suggest it could also be used by those working in a loud environment in need of a quiet way to communicate with their wearable devices. The prototype involves a combination of tongue control with earphone-like pieces each installed with proximity sensors to map the changing shape of the ear canal. Every word manipulates the canal in a different way, allowing for accurate recognition.
Modern app appers know that only apps can app apps, so all you need for accurate app apping is more APPS, not LUDDITE tongue tracking or voice recognition!
Apps!
You are all cows. Cows say moo. MOOOO! MOOOO! Moo cows MOOOO! Moo say the cows. YOU WEARING COWS!!
Oh, I can't wait until people are controlling their phones with their tongues and ears. Can not wait.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Are you having a stroke? No I'm writing an email.
I had the same idea a while back, but instead the idea was to use a pair of glasses with arms that were antennas - the position of the tongue in the mouth was sensed in the space based on how it affected an HF field between the parallell wires, kinda like a head-theremin. There were a lot of potential issues with interference and the processing to work it out was not going to be trivial - but the idea seemed sound and would have let you use the tongue/teeth and roof of mouth as a kind of mouse pointer and keyboard.
Sounds like the communications detailed in Enders Game , when Ender is communicating with his earpiece AI 'Jane'.
Hopefully, it such control wouldn't be confused by speakers of click languages such as Khoekhoe, Sandawe !Kung.