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Continuation of Adding to "talking wheelchairs" - SSR and sEMG

With the limitations of ASR systems, Portable Speech Prosthesis have moved to the use of Silent Speech Recognition (SSR). The goal of using SSR with VSP is to recognize information that is speech related with some modals such as surface electromyography (sEMG). Speech recognition models used algorithms for extracting speech-related features through the sEMG signals. The patterns of sEMG signals used grammar models to recognize sequences of words. Phoneme-based models were also used when recognizing vocabulary of previously untrained words. Multi-point sensors were used with these algorithms in which they could be arranged in a flexible way to record the measurements of sEMG signals from the small articular muscles found in the human face and neck.

Adding to "talking wheelchairs" - SSR and sEMG

With the limitations of ASR systems, Portable Speech Prosthesis have moved to the use of Silent Speech Recognition (SSR). The goal of using SSR with VSP is to recognize information that is speech related with some modals such as surface electromyography (sEMG).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6168082/

Adding photo of Stephen Hawking to "Talking Wheelchair" bullet on the Space Medicine Wikipedia Page.

Added a picture of Dr. Stephen Hawking and his VSP from Wikipedia Commons and also added a citation where the photo is originally from (NASA website). I also added a caption explaining how Dr. Hawking used the VSP with a thumb switch and a blink-switch on his glasses. I also put this on the Space Medicine talk page.

Caption: Dr. Stephen Hawking used the "talking wheelchair" or the Versatile Speech Prosthesis. To operate the VSP, Dr. Hawking used a thumb switch and a blink-switch that was attached to his glasses to control his computer.

Citation link for the Final Report: Research and Development of a Versatile Portable Speech Prosthesis.

Responding to DaleHabe Peer Review

After taking Dale's suggestions into consideration, I have found a different link with the source of the Final Report, The Research and Development of the Versatile Portable Speech Prosthesis and have change some citations in my sandbox. I need to change my links into proper citations and create headings/titles in my sandbox for better organization. Even though it says in the final report that NASA was included in projects and research that were not necessarily space related, it may be good to try and explain this or how VSP are related to space and/or space medicine.

"In many cases, the connection of the project with NASA was mentioned, for it is not widely known that NASA participates in projects which are not aviation or space related"

Adding to Draft about VSP

The first version of the versatile portable speech prosthesis was completed in May 1979. There were additions made to the VSP in November 1979 and provided more controls for speech. By November 1979, VSP was capable of taking English text and successful in putting out English speech. The user was also able to store and retrieve vocabulary, as well as edit and create new vocabulary. The controls and plugs on the VSP were versatile allowing plug-and-go ability.

Draft - Versatile Portable Speech Prosthesis (VSP) or Talking Wheelchairs

“Talking Wheelchairs” or The Versatile Portable Speech Prosthesis (VSP) is a technology that aids in the communication for non-verbal persons. The project started in May 1978 and finished in November 1981. Originally, this technology was created for people who were diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy who were using traditional electric wheelchairs. This technology is portable and versatile, as well as a highly successful speech prosthesis. However, the nickname “talking wheelchair” has created some separation from the wheelchair itself. The VSP is easily accessible to the person using it by operation of single or multiple switches or by keyboard, and uses a synthetic voice used for verbal speech. The synthetic voice provides communication opportunities that regular speaking persons have such as: communicating with people in a crowd, communicating in the dark, communicating with people who have vision problems, communicating with younger children, communicating when the listener’s back is turned, etc. The synthetic voice also provides a sense of personal and individual communication as the keyboard can be programmed with “fun” words as well as “throw-away lines”.

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:gqlP90_YO1sJ:https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19820014023/downloads/19820014023.pdf+&cd=11&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-b-1-d

Adding to Kidney Dialysis Machines in Space Medicine

The Marquardt Corporation, an ancestor company with NASA, were developing a system that would purify and recycle water during space missions in the late 1960s. From this project, the Marquardt Corporation observed that these processes could be used in removing toxic waste from used dialysis fluid. This allowed the development of a kidney dialysis machine.

Sources related to Space Medicine

https://www.bcm.edu/academic-centers/space-medicine

https://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/9-12/features/F_Space_Medicine.html

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3946016/