US Patent Issued to Cornell University on Dec. 23 for "Devices, systems, and methods for personal speech recognition and replacement" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,842, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y.).

"Devices, systems, and methods for personal speech recognition and replacement" was invented by Anais Rameau (Ithaca, N.Y.), Simon Dunham (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Fei Wang (Ithaca, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes approaches to voice restoration using personal devices that detect surface electromyographic (sEMG) signals from articulatory muscles for the recognition of silent speech in a patient (such as a patient with total laryngectomy, on voice rest, etc.). A personal device may comprise a cutaneous sensor unit and a control mod...