How the Virtual Tongue Aims to Help Speech Therapy - DZone AI

On a recent trip to Grenoble, I met with the team behind a "digital nose" that was designed to provide a digital means of detecting smells (you can read about it here). Such digitally augmented sensing is clearly something the area specializes in, as a team of researchers from the GIPSA-Lab in Grenoble has also developed a virtual tongue. The work, which was documented in a recently published paper, uses an ultrasound probe positioned under the jaw with a machine learning algorithm, then takes this data and converts them into virtual replicas in an avatar. The avatar is capable of replicating the movements in the face, the lips, the tongue, and teeth. The researchers believe this visual biofeedback system could provide valuable information for things such as speech therapy.