Are You Talking To Me? A Microphone For Clearer Speech (30 Jun 2004)

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Are You Talking To Me? A Microphone For Clearer Speech (30 Jun 2004)
Researchers from several groups at Microsoft Research have come up with a way to improve communication, using a basic rule of human physiology. We vibrate.

More specifically, when we talk, the bones in our body vibrate. A bone-conductive microphone can pick up this vibration. People have used bone-conductive microphones before, but the researchers are using them in a completely different way.

Bone-conductive microphones are less sensitive to background noise, and can filter out more than 95% of background speech.

Article URL: http://research.microsoft.com/displayArticle.aspx?id=657

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