What podcasts say about Eddie Chang, MD
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What Eddie Chang, MD has said on podcasts
18 statements · 11 positive · 4 negative · 1 mixed · 2 neutral
Speech is one modality of language.
“Speech is just one form of language.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Science of Learning & Speaking Languages | Dr. Eddie ChangListen at 2:03
Speaking may be the most complex motor behavior humans perform.
“Some people would say it's the most complex motor thing that we do as a species is speaking”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Science of Learning & Speaking Languages | Dr. Eddie ChangListen at 2:45
Vocal-fold resonance is approximately 100 hertz in men and 200 hertz in women.
“the vibrating frequency, the resonance frequency of the vocal folds when the air comes through them is about 100 hertz for men and about 200 for women.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Science of Learning & Speaking Languages | Dr. Eddie ChangListen at 4:23
Speech-area injuries often leave basic vocalization intact.
“So people who have injuries in the speech and language areas oftentimes can still moan, they can still vocalize.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Science of Learning & Speaking Languages | Dr. Eddie ChangListen at 6:16
Machine-learning algorithms can translate subtle brain-activity patterns into words.
“We put them through machine learning or artificial intelligence algorithm that can pick up these very, very subtle patterns. You can't actually see them with your eye in. In the brain activity and translate those into words.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Science of Learning & Speaking Languages | Dr. Eddie ChangListen at 13:37
The speech-decoding computer recognized a 50-word vocabulary.
“The way this worked was we trained this computer to recognize 50 words.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Science of Learning & Speaking Languages | Dr. Eddie ChangListen at 14:38
Speech-neuroprosthetic vocabularies will become substantially larger.
“I think that this is just a matter of time before these vocabularies become much, much larger.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Science of Learning & Speaking Languages | Dr. Eddie ChangListen at 14:48
Speech decoding is substantially less than 100% accurate.
“because the decoding is not 100% correct all the time. In fact, it's far from that.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Science of Learning & Speaking Languages | Dr. Eddie ChangListen at 15:29
Autocorrect improves and updates inaccurate brain-decoded speech.
“it's really helpful to have these other features like autocorrect, the stuff that we use routinely now with texting, that makes it correct and then updates it.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Science of Learning & Speaking Languages | Dr. Eddie ChangListen at 15:34
Neurotechnology augmentation is approaching through incremental, non-obvious developments.
“I do think that provided the technology continues to emerge the way that it does, that it's going to be around the corner and it probably is not going to be in ways that are super obvious.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Science of Learning & Speaking Languages | Dr. Eddie ChangListen at 20:31
Current neurotechnology is nowhere near the capabilities of natural speech systems.
“There's no technology that exists right now that people are thinking about that are in commercial form, certainly not even in research labs that come anywhere close to what has been evolved for those natural purposes.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Science of Learning & Speaking Languages | Dr. Eddie ChangListen at 21:27
Technology will limit how far cognitive augmentation can advance.
“the technology is going to be the rate limiting step and how far it can go.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Science of Learning & Speaking Languages | Dr. Eddie ChangListen at 22:04
Combining visual and auditory speech information improves intelligibility and naturalness.
“So having both the visual information but also the sounds go into your brain is going to improve the intelligibility, also make it more natural.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Science of Learning & Speaking Languages | Dr. Eddie ChangListen at 23:24
More social interaction will move into digital virtual spaces within a few years.
“I think the way things are going in the next couple of years, a lot more of our social interactions, more than even now, are going to move into this digital virtual space.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Science of Learning & Speaking Languages | Dr. Eddie ChangListen at 24:01
Avatar-based speech communication will happen soon.
“That is going to happen and it's going to happen soon.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Science of Learning & Speaking Languages | Dr. Eddie ChangListen at 25:06
Speech avatars can help users learn to control speech neuroprosthetics more quickly.
“but actually have people embody, feel like it's part of themselves or that they are directly controlling that, that illustration or animation.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Science of Learning & Speaking Languages | Dr. Eddie ChangListen at 25:39
Stuttering involves intermittent breakdowns in speech-motor coordination.
“Stuttering is a. Is essentially a breakdown at certain times in that machinery being able to work in a really coordinated way.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Science of Learning & Speaking Languages | Dr. Eddie ChangListen at 29:15
Changing auditory feedback can increase or decrease stuttering.
“sometimes when you change that, it can actually change the amount someone stutters, for better or for worse.”
Open the episode · Essentials: The Science of Learning & Speaking Languages | Dr. Eddie ChangListen at 31:11
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