An initial investigation into the real-time conversion of facial surface EMG signals to audible speech

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn 2016-October, Issue , 2016, Pages 888-891

  Diener, Lorenz ^a   Herff, Christian ^a   Janke, Matthias ^a   Schultz, Tanja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH;

EID: 85009110524     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2016.7590843     Document Type: Conference Paper

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