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Decoding throat-language using flexibility sensors with machine learning

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Hairui Fang
李世其 (Shiqi Li)
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Dong Wang
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Zhiyu Bao
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Yifei Xu
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Wenjuan Jiang
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Ke Lin
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Zimeng Xiao
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Xinyu Li
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Ye Zhang *
DOI:10.1016/j.sna.2023.114192delete
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Abstract

Abstract

En 中文
Throat vibration signals contain potential information for communication. However, there is little systematic research on throat vibration signals at present. Here, we propose a novel throat-language decoding system (TLDS) for capturing signals of throat vibration aided by flexible, low-cost and self-powered sensors and semantic analysis with a machine learning classifier. A polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) flexible piezoelectric sensor was prepared to collect the throat vibration signals. The sensor has a safe human skin fit, high softness, excellent response repeatability, outstanding linear sensitivity, and long-term durability. After denoised, the time-frequency dynamics features and nonlinear dynamics features of the throat vibration signals were extracted, and the Grid Search-Support Vector Machine (GS-SVM) was applied to recognize the features. TLDS has achieved satisfactory results in a series of tasks, including letters recognition, speaker recognition, and semantic recog-nition. The average accuracy of single-person letters recognition was 90.55%, even with multi-person, the ac-curacy rate was still up to 87.26%. Besides, the accuracy of speaker recognition and simple semantic recognition were 95.97%, and 97.50%, respectively. Our work provides a promising approach that can provide unparalleled value in helping people who cannot speak to live a convenient life with accessible communications.
Keywords:
Throat vibration signals
Semantic analysis
Flexible sensor
Throat-language decoding system
Machine learning

Journal

Sensors and Actuators A-Physical cover
Sensors and Actuators A-Physical
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4.9
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1.5W
Citations:
3.3W

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northeast electric power university
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