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E-News | Tech | Researchers Invent a Device That Can Hear Silent Speech

기사의 첫 두 문단만 가져와서 각 수준별로 어떻게 차이가 나는지 확인해 보세요. 사용하는 어휘와 구문이 복잡해지고 더욱 디테일해지는 것을 볼 수 있습니다.

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1. 초급

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Researchers at MIT have created a device that can hear silent speech, called AlterEgo. It’s similar to Siri or Alexa – you can ask it questions and get answers, but silently. The device was invented by Arnav Kapur and his professor Patti Maes, as a way to increase human intelligence.

AlterEgo looks like a headset. It attaches to the face near the mouth and behind the ear. From its connection near the mouth, it picks up tiny movements when a person speaks silently. These movements are sent to a machine that matches each movement with a word. Then it can talk back to the user silently through its connection behind the ear. In this way the user can ask questions and get answers completely silently.

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2. 중급

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Researchers at the MIT Media Lab have created a device that can hear silent speech, called AlterEgo. It’s similar to a virtual assistant like Siri or Alexa, which you can ask questions of and get answers from, but completely silent. The device was invented by graduate student Arnav Kapur and his professor Patti Maes, as a way to increase human intelligence by bringing humans and machines closer together.

The first model looks like a headset, but instead of having a microphone, it attaches to the face. AlterEgo does not read thoughts. What it does read are called “subvocalizations,” which are words that a person speaks silently. While speaking silently, the mouth area makes some tiny movements that can’t be seen. The device has a set of sensors placed along the side of the face to pick up on the movements made by subvocalizations. These are fed into a machine that matches specific movements with their words. Then, instead of earbuds, the device talks back to the user by transmitting sound through the bones of the face into the inner ear, allowing the user to receive silent feedback. Thus the user can ask and receive answers to questions completely silently.

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3. 고급

One of the latest inventions to come out of the MIT Media Lab is a device that can hear silent speech, dubbed AlterEgo. Think of it as a virtual assistant like Siri or Alexa, which you can interface with by asking questions of it and getting back answers, but completely silently. The device was invented by graduate student Arnav Kapur and his professor Patti Maes, as a way to augment human intelligence by bringing humans and machines closer together.

The prototype is a wearable device that looks like a headset, but instead of having a microphone to pick up sound, it attaches to the jawline and picks up vibrations. AlterEgo does not read thoughts. What it does read are referred to as “subvocalizations,” which are words that a person speaks silently – making some minuscule movements with the mouth that are invisible to the naked eye. Along the jawline it uses a set of electrodes placed in key spots to pick up on vibrations made by subvocalizations. These are fed as electric signals into a machine-learning system that correlates specific signals with their corresponding words. Then, instead of headphones or earbuds, the device curls up around the back of the ear and talks back to the user by transmitting vibrations through the bones of the face into the inner ear, allowing the user to receive silent feedback without obstructing the ear canal (as normal earbuds do). Thus the user can ask and receive answers to questions completely silently.