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In this paper, we consider the task of digitally voicing silent speech, where silently mouthed words are converted to audible speech based on electromyography (EMG) sensor measurements that capture muscle impulses. While prior work has…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-08 David Gaddy , Dan Klein

Silent speech decoding, which performs unvocalized human speech recognition from electroencephalography/electromyography (EEG/EMG), increases accessibility for speech-impaired humans. However, data collection is difficult and performed…

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Unvoiced electromyography (EMG) is an effective communication tool for individuals unable to produce vocal speech. However, most prior methods rely on paired voiced and unvoiced EMG signals, along with speech data, for EMG-to-text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Payal Mohapatra , Akash Pandey , Xiaoyuan Zhang , Qi Zhu

In this paper we introduce attention-regression model to demonstrate predicting acoustic features from electroencephalography (EEG) features recorded in parallel with spoken sentences. First we demonstrate predicting acoustic features…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Gautam Krishna , Co Tran , Mason Carnahan , Ahmed Tewfik

Decoding the speech signal that a person is listening to from the human brain via electroencephalography (EEG) can help us understand how our auditory system works. Linear models have been used to reconstruct the EEG from speech or vice…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-18 Mohammad Jalilpour Monesi , Bernd Accou , Tom Francart , Hugo Van Hamme

In this paper, we introduce a novel framework for generating multi-speaker speech without relying on any audible inputs. Our approach leverages silent electromyography (EMG) signals to capture linguistic content, while facial images are…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Jaejun Lee , Yoori Oh , Kyogu Lee

Surface electromyography (EMG) is a promising modality for silent speech interfaces, but its effectiveness depends heavily on sensor placement and channel availability. In this work, we investigate the contribution of individual and…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Injune Hwang , Jaejun Lee , Kyogu Lee

Electromyography-to-Speech (ETS) conversion has demonstrated its potential for silent speech interfaces by generating audible speech from Electromyography (EMG) signals during silent articulations. ETS models usually consist of an EMG…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Zhao Ren , Kevin Scheck , Qinhan Hou , Stefano van Gogh , Michael Wand , Tanja Schultz

In [1,2] authors provided preliminary results for synthesizing speech from electroencephalography (EEG) features where they first predict acoustic features from EEG features and then the speech is reconstructed from the predicted acoustic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-03 Gautam Krishna , Co Tran , Mason Carnahan , Ahmed Tewfik

The electroencephalogram (EEG) is a powerful method to understand how the brain processes speech. Linear models have recently been replaced for this purpose with deep neural networks and yield promising results. In related EEG…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-25 Lies Bollens , Tom Francart , Hugo Van Hamme

Multimodal learning has been proven to be an effective method to improve speech enhancement (SE) performance, especially in challenging situations such as low signal-to-noise ratios, speech noise, or unseen noise types. In previous studies,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-15 Kuan-Chen Wang , Kai-Chun Liu , Hsin-Min Wang , Yu Tsao

In this paper we demonstrate that it is possible to generate more meaningful electroencephalography (EEG) features from raw EEG features using generative adversarial networks (GAN) to improve the performance of EEG based continuous speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-03 Gautam Krishna , Co Tran , Mason Carnahan , Ahmed Tewfik

In a noisy environment, a lossy speech signal can be automatically restored by a listener if he/she knows the language well. That is, with the built-in knowledge of a "language model", a listener may effectively suppress noise interference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Chien-Feng Liao , Yu Tsao , Xugang Lu , Hisashi Kawai

The electroencephalography (EEG) signals recorded in parallel with speech are used to perform isolated and continuous speech recognition. During speaking process, one also hears his or her own speech and this speech perception is also…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-03 Gautam Krishna , Co Tran , Mason Carnahan , Ahmed Tewfik

Speech decoding from EEG signals is a challenging task, where brain activity is modeled to estimate salient characteristics of acoustic stimuli. We propose FESDE, a novel framework for Fully-End-to-end Speech Decoding from EEG signals. Our…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-14 Jihwan Lee , Aditya Kommineni , Tiantian Feng , Kleanthis Avramidis , Xuan Shi , Sudarsana Kadiri , Shrikanth Narayanan

Objective. In this article, we present data and methods for decoding speech articulations using surface electromyogram (EMG) signals. EMG-based speech neuroprostheses offer a promising approach for restoring audible speech in individuals…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Harshavardhana T. Gowda , Zachary D. McNaughton , Lee M. Miller

We present a neuromuscular speech interface that translates electromyographic (EMG) signals recorded from orofacial muscles during speech articulation directly into audio. We find that self-supervised speech (S3) representations are…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Harshavardhana T. Gowda , Daniel C. Comstock , Lee M. Miller

Silent Speech Interfaces (SSIs) have gained attention for their ability to generate intelligible speech from non-acoustic signals. While significant progress has been made in advancing speech generation pipelines, limited work has addressed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Nithyashree Sivasubramaniam

In this paper we first demonstrate continuous noisy speech recognition using electroencephalography (EEG) signals on English vocabulary using different types of state of the art end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) models, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-06 Gautam Krishna , Yan Han , Co Tran , Mason Carnahan , Ahmed H Tewfik

This paper proposes a novel unsupervised autoregressive neural model for learning generic speech representations. In contrast to other speech representation learning methods that aim to remove noise or speaker variabilities, ours is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Yu-An Chung , Wei-Ning Hsu , Hao Tang , James Glass
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