Mmmm Good. Homemade Peet's Toddy Iced Coffee with Horchata

Mmmm Good. Homemade Peet's (www.peets.com) Toddy (http://is.gd/FO8) Iced Coffee with Horchata (http://is.gd/MoM)

Credits/Product Placements: http://is.gd/instructions.php, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horchata, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toddy_coffee, Peet's Coffee & Tea, Samsung S630 Point and Shoot Digitial Camera

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EMG - Electromyography - observing the activity of muscles associated with speech

"Unvoiced speech recognition recognizes speech by observing the EMG [Electromyography] activity of muscles associated with speech. It is targeted for use in noisy environments, and may be helpful for people without vocal cords and people with aphasia." -  Wikipedia - Electromyography

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Sub vocal Google search

www.google.com/search?q=sub+vocal

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NASA Develops System To Computerize Silent, "Subvocal Speech"

NASA Develops System To Computerize Silent, "Subvocal Speech"


NASA scientists have begun to computerize human, silent reading using nerve signals in the throat that control speech.

In preliminary experiments, NASA scientists found that small, button-sized sensors, stuck under the chin and on either side of the "Adam's apple," could gather nerve signals, and send them to a processor and then to a computer program that translates them into words. Eventually, such "subvocal speech" systems could be used in spacesuits, in noisy places like airport towers to capture air-traffic controller commands, or even in traditional voice-recognition programs to increase accuracy, according to NASA scientists.

"What is analyzed is silent, or subauditory, speech, such as when a person silently reads or talks to himself," said Chuck Jorgensen, a scientist whose team is developing silent, subvocal speech recognition at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. "Biological signals arise when reading or speaking to oneself with or without actual lip or facial movement," Jorgensen explained.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2004/mar/HQ_04093_subvocal_speech.html

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Web Browser Control Using EMG Based Sub Vocal Speech Recognition

Web Browser Control Using EMG Based Sub Vocal Speech Recognition
Jorgensen, C.   Binsted, K. 
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field CA;

This paper appears in: System Sciences, 2005. HICSS '05. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on
Publication Date: 03-06 Jan. 2005
On page(s): 294c- 294c
ISSN: 1530-1605
ISBN: 0-7695-2268-8
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/HICSS.2005.683
Date Published in Issue: 2005-01-24 09:11:40.0
Abstract
Subvocal electromyogram (EMG) signal classification is used to control a modified web browser interface. Recorded surface signals from the larynx and sublingual areas below the jaw are filtered and transformed into features using a complex dual quad tree wavelet transform. Feature sets for six subvocally pronounced control words, 10 digits, 17 vowel phonemes and 23 consonant phonemes are trained using a scaled conjugate gradient neural network. The subvocal signals are classified and used to initiate web browser queries through a matrix based alphabet coding scheme. Hyperlinks on web pages returned by the browser are numbered sequentially and queried using digits only. Classification methodology, accuracy, and feasibility for scale up to real world human machine interface tasks are discussed in the context of vowel and consonant recognition accuracy.

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1385845&isnumber=30166

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Talking Books Librarian: Operate a computer using only your tongue!

<cite>Talking Books Librarian: Operate a computer using only your tongue!</cite>: "

Operate a computer using only your tongue!Listen to this ArticleTaken from the article at http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?id"

This makes me think of Subvocal Input Device - under your breath (from Earth by David Brin), as a means of controlling an Epiphany Suit. In other words, fiction becomes reality.

Best Practice: maintain a balance amongst attention to email, chats, twitter, and work interrupts

Using Outlook Rules and Alerts and Chat tool configuration, I am managing to improve my ability to maintain a balance amongst attention to email, chats, twitter, and work interrupts.  This is a dynamic mostly-manual iterative process. Automation and/or management of this process would ideally be done using XMPP, in some form or another.

Does anyone know of XMPP-based tools or bots that can be used to manage interrupts from Outlook and Jabber/Windows Live Messenger?

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