Hear you this Triton of the minnows?
Using a high-speed camera pointed at the throat, scientists can decipher a person’s words without relying on a microphone.
By snapping thousands of images per second, researchers recorded every wavering wobble of neck flesh that accompanied sounds floating out from a person’s voice box. A computer program then turned the recorded skin vibrations into sound waves, Yasuhiro Oikawa of Waseda University in Tokyo reported June 3.
