TOWARD A SILENT SPEECH INTERFACE BASED ON UNSPOKEN SPEECH

Alejandro Antonio Torres García, Carlos Alberto Reyes García, Luis Villaseñor Pineda

2012

Abstract

This work aims to interpret the EEG signals associated with actions to imagine the pronunciation of words that belong to a reduced vocabulary without moving the articulatory muscles and without uttering any audible sound (unspoken speech). Specifically, the vocabulary reflects movements to control the cursor on the computer. We have recorded EEG signals from 21 subjects using a markers based basic protocol. The discrete wavelet transform (DWT) is used to extract features from the delimited windows, and a subset of them with frequency ranges below 32 Hz is further selected. These subsets are used to train four classifiers: Naive Bayes (NB), Random Forests (RF), support vector machine (SVM), and Bagging-RF. The results are still preliminary but encouraging because the accuracy rates are above 20%, i.e. up to chance for five classes. The implementation process as well as some experiments with their corresponding results are shown.

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Antonio Torres García A., Alberto Reyes García C. and Villaseñor Pineda L. (2012). TOWARD A SILENT SPEECH INTERFACE BASED ON UNSPOKEN SPEECH . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2012) ISBN 978-989-8425-89-8, pages 370-373. DOI: 10.5220/0003769603700373


in Bibtex Style

@conference{biosignals12,
author={Alejandro Antonio Torres García and Carlos Alberto Reyes García and Luis Villaseñor Pineda},
title={TOWARD A SILENT SPEECH INTERFACE BASED ON UNSPOKEN SPEECH},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={370-373},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003769603700373},
isbn={978-989-8425-89-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2012)
TI - TOWARD A SILENT SPEECH INTERFACE BASED ON UNSPOKEN SPEECH
SN - 978-989-8425-89-8
AU - Antonio Torres García A.
AU - Alberto Reyes García C.
AU - Villaseñor Pineda L.
PY - 2012
SP - 370
EP - 373
DO - 10.5220/0003769603700373