KIT-Professor honoured for "Silent Communication"

The computer scientist Prof. Dr Tanja Schultz from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology was awarded the 2012 Research Award for Technical Communication. The award is endowed with 20,000 Euro and is awarded by the Alcatel-Lucent Foundation. Schultz has established the field of "Silent Communication" on an international level. The technology she has developed captures the activities of facial muscles during talking and thereby can deduct the content, even when people are speaking silently. This development can support people who have lost their voice.

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