Sep 21, 2012 21:00:00

Free software 'Speech Jammer Lite' that reproduces the mechanism of silence by interfering with chatting and making it incomprehensible

The 2012 Ig Nobel Prize (Study that makes people laugh and think) is given by 'SpeechJammer ', which makes the speaker feel uncomfortable and unable to speak well without causing physical pain. Since I won the Acoustics Prize, I went to the official website and found that the free software ' SpeechJammerLite ' was distributed so that I could experience this mechanism. It can be started on Windows where DirectX is installed. See below for the mechanism of Speech Jammer and how to operate the software.

AIST: Received the 2012 Ig Nobel Prize
https://www.aist.go.jp/aist_j/news/prize/itemid025-000046.html

12. SpeechJammer --Kazutaka Kurihara: Kazutaka Kurihara's Website
https://sites.google.com/site/qurihara/home/speechjammer

This is Speech Jammer.

To use it, have Speech Jammer like this ...

If you aim at the mouth of the person who is speaking and pull the trigger, the other person will not be able to speak well.

The phenomenon of being unable to speak is that you usually hear your own voice and judge that your brain is normal.

It is thought that if you listen to the other party's voice with a delay of several hundred milliseconds after making a voice, it will be in a different state than usual, and it will be judged that the brain is abnormal and you will not be able to speak well. ..

In addition, Speech Jammer will be applied for conversation etiquette, rule control, presentation training, etc.

◆ About software download and operation method
First of all, from the movie below that explains the free software 'Speech Jammer Lite' that allows you to experience Speech Jammer.

SpeechJammerLite Introduction --YouTube


SpeechJammerLite (Free) --Kazutaka Kurihara: Kazutaka Kurihara's Website
https://sites.google.com/site/qurihara/home/speechjammer/lt

Click 'Download the Windows version of Speech Jammer Lite' on the above site.

Unzip the downloaded ZIP file with

Explzh etc. and execute 'SpeechJammerLite.exe'.

The operation screen will be displayed, so make sure that the input microphone displayed at the bottom left is correct.

To experience 'Speech Jammer' right away, click 'Jamming ON' and speak into the microphone.

'Jamming ON' is displayed.

Click 'Jamming OFF' to disable the function.

'Jamming OFF' is displayed.

Click the left and right buttons at the bottom left to set the interval between speaking and delaying. The interval from 0 to 4991 milliseconds can be set.

You can also set by moving the knob between the left and right buttons to the left and right.

You can use the timer function from 1 minute to 60 minutes, and here you can set the time by clicking the button to the left of 'min.'.

To start the timer function, just click 'Start' at the bottom right.

A stable version that runs on Windows Phone will also be released.