Introducing Alterego: the world’s first near-telepathic wearable that enables silent communication at the speed of thought. Alterego makes AI an extension of the human mind. We’ve made several breakthroughs since our work started at MIT. We’re announcing those today.

Here’s how it works: Alterego passively detects the downstream subtle signals your brain sends to your speech system, before words are spoken aloud. It captures only what you intend to say. 🔒It never reads your thoughts. ✅Only picks up what you want to communicate.

This technology is normally called Silent Speech. But we’ve made a breakthrough we call “Silent Sense.” Silent Sense picks up the entire spectrum of speech: - From the mouthing of words - All the way to motionless intent to speak Communicate as loudly or quietly as you want. Alterego will detect it.

With Alterego, you can: ⚡ Type at the speed of thought, no keyboard needed 🌐 Search the internet silently 🤖 Interact with your favorite apps, hands-free 📸Ask questions about the world around you 🤝Even have silent conversations with others

A profound application of this technology and a moonshot challenge of our time: giving a voice back to those who have been deprived of it. Our work is deeply collaborative, shaped in partnership with patients, clinicians, and leading experts in the field.

Why now? Current interfaces, keyboards, and touchscreens slow us down. And voice is awkward to use in public. Alterego brings a new era of frictionless communication, where your intent flows directly into action.

We built Alterego to be an extension of the human mind: – Write, create, communicate wherever you are – Help those with specific speech impairments regain their voice – Enable everyone to explore their world effortlessly

This is just the beginning. Imagine a world where AI and computing are woven as an extension of the mind and disappear into the background. That’s the future Alterego is building. 🌍✨

We’re excited to finally share this with you. Follow along, we’ll be revealing more soon. Welcome to the future of communication. Sign up for early access

This is cool but a misleading video. A lot of people seem to be confused by this and think it’s mind reading. It’s not. The device requires you to kind of silently whisper the words in your mouth and flap your tongue around.

Do we think this guy is sharing a cell with Elizabeth Holmes in 1-3 or 3-5 years? Bro does not have mind reading tech

wow does this work for people who don’t have an inner monologue?

what if I think this?

If the signal can be recorded, the UK will arrest you for thought crimes.

I’m either getting trolled or this is one of the biggest hardware launches of the 21st century 👀

Nice I will buy 2 one for me and another for my dog 😂

This 100% has to be fake

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I call it now: BULLSHIT

This appears more like a prank😅 Please confirm 🙏

What actually went down

Holy fuck

Creating a new class of tech bro: the mumble coder

This is insane!

No fucking way this works as presented.

This is INCREDIBLE

Holy frijoles

What the actual fuck, either this is fake or this is shaping to be the biggest product launch in the 21st century

you guys read my mind

Breakdown of the paper behind it: Title: AlterEgo: A Personalized Wearable Silent Speech Interface The scientists made a special headband with little sensors that touch the skin on the face and neck. These sensors pick up tiny electrical signals from muscles when someone thinks about speaking, even if they don't make a sound. They asked people to silently read numbers (0-9) and math words (like "add" or "multiply") to themselves. They collected a lot of this "silent speech" data, about 31 hours in total. Then, they used a smart computer program called a neural network to learn how to understand these signals and turn them into words. They tested how well the system worked by having 10 people silently say math problems and seeing if the computer got the right answer. The computer would then whisper the answer back to the person using special headphones that send sound through their bones, so only they could hear it. .......

my alterego after 1 day

This is bonkers

I'm deeply curious about the training methods used to develop this. It feels like something that could only have been created in a post AI era. I wonder if that's true.

Very excited for this I've long been wonder how voice interfaces will work in open-plan offices - non-invasive BCIs are a great solution

I'm assuming this is EMG picking up on mouth/throat signals? There is no way you are decoding speech that accurately with just EEG.

I need 5 right now.

Great work team, been looking forward to this for a long time.

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