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Main Authors: Wu, Peter, Kaveh, Ryan, Nautiyal, Raghav, Zhang, Christine, Guo, Albert, Kachinthaya, Anvitha, Mishra, Tavish, Yu, Bohan, Black, Alan W, Muller, Rikky, Anumanchipalli, Gopala Krishna
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21345
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  • Electrodes for decoding speech from electromyography (EMG) are typically placed on the face, requiring adhesives that are inconvenient and skin-irritating if used regularly. We explore a different device form factor, where dry electrodes are placed around the neck instead. 11-word, multi-speaker voiced EMG classifiers trained on data recorded with this device achieve 92.7% accuracy. Ablation studies reveal the importance of having more than two electrodes on the neck, and phonological analyses reveal similar classification confusions between neck-only and neck-and-face form factors. Finally, speech-EMG correlation experiments demonstrate a linear relationship between many EMG spectrogram frequency bins and self-supervised speech representation dimensions.