Alterego's 'silent Speech' Could Be the Answer to Dictating Text in Public
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Alterego's 'Silent Speech' wearable technology allows for dictating text in public without speaking aloud, sparking discussion on its potential and limitations.
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What kind of compute power will be needed for local inference? Its latency is pretty bad, which makes interaction tiresome. If you truly want to support the disabled, it needs to be open source at one point.
Even if it had 99.9% accuracy is not enough. One correction out of every 101 ish words.
Not insurmountable, but we will see.