Let's talk hair-replacement therapy. No, I'm not talking about premature baldness, Rogaine or Hair Club for Men. I'm talking about the 15,000 hair-like cells we have in each cochlea at birth that are responsible for translating sound waves from the ear drum into electrical signals the brain can decode as speech, music, a baby crying and all other sounds. When these cells die … [Read more...] about California Dreaming About Hearing-Hair Replacement
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ScanSoft: Will Speech Processing Go The Way Of The Kurzweil Reader?
I frequently entertain myself with a futuristic vision of high-tech eyeglasses equipped with a tiny microphone, a tiny speech processing chip, and a tiny holographic projector that can transcribe everyday conversation in real time and project it in front of my eyes like the closed-captioning system on my TV. Believe it or not, all the technologies required to create such a … [Read more...] about ScanSoft: Will Speech Processing Go The Way Of The Kurzweil Reader?