14 DAY TRIAL // Voice generation technology isn't as great as we'd like it to be, so we still depend on pre-recorded words and voice patterns to simulate it. Whispers might be closer than we thought though.
A certain designer by the name of Minsu Kim was able to come up with a contraption that synthetically emulates human whispering.
He calls it The Illusion of Life and described it as a sort of next step in technology's exploration of the five senses.
Sight has, by far, been serviced the most by technology, but he says that hearing should be paid just as much attention.
And while there are plenty of technologies used to transmit or repeat/simulate sound, things that actually create sounds, or properly imitate human speech, aren't what they could be.
The Illusion of Life synthetically generates whispers by mimicking the temperature, humidity, smell and vocal qualities of a whisper.
It is made of several respirator bags, silicone air valves and a motion detector.
Minsu Kim says that it's all for the sake of facilitating “strong bonds of communication and connection between the user and a machine.” Too bad the thing isn't smaller. If it hadn't been bigger than the size of a human head, maybe it would have had some practical applications, in weird gadgets and toys if nothing else.