Eventually systems like this will funnel into civilian technology, and that will be utterly fascinating. Imagine the “great silence” evolving out of technology-induced telepathy.

During the last decade, the Pentagon’s DARPA launched the “Advanced Speech Encoding Program” to develop nonacoustic sensors for speech encoding in acoustically hostile environments, such as inside of a military vehicle or an urban environment. The DARPA division is currently involved in a program called “Silent Talk” that aims to develop user-to-user communication on the battlefield through EEG signals of “intended speech,” thereby eliminating the need for any vocalization or body gestures.

Such capabilities will be of particular benefit in reconnaissance and special operations settings, and successful applications of silent speech interfaces have already been reported.

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