Syrinx – Speech is a right, not a privilege

– Speech is a right, not a privilege –

A world where everyone can speak with hands-free EL.

NEWS

2020.10.15

We were selected as the ( James Dyson Award )World Finalist TOP20

2020.10.09

Japanese Online Media, bouncy featured us.

2020.9.17

We won the ( James Dyson Award )in Japan(national winner)

2020.7.14

We are featured on Microsoft Cloud Developer Channel Youtube Video

2020.6.18

We took part in the DMM.make AKIBA event

2020.6.18

It was published in Nikkei U22 Challenger "Challenge of the University of Tokyo team to recover "lost voice" with AI".

2020.6.10

Chip One Stop Online Exhibition 2020 Spring / We gave an online lecture in "Introduction of companies of note from the University of Tokyo who are using Chip One Stop".

2020.6.08

It was featured in a Microsoft article, "Regaining Your Own 'Voice' with the Power of AI-Challenge of Team Syrinx, Second Place Winner at the Imagine Cup World Championship."

2020.5.28

Appeared in BS TV Tokyo "[Nikkei Plus 10] Road to SDGs-The world is paying attention! A device to recover lost voice & renewable energy in the corona era ~".

2020.5.28

Our story ran in the Inverse

2020.5.20

We are in the Top3 team in Microsoft ImagineCup World Final

2020.4.30

We were introduced on Todai To Texas 2020 web page (Written in Japanese)

2020.4.21

We took part in "a LINK-J special event"(Written in Japanese)

2020.4.2

We were featured in a Japanese TV show, "Nikkei Plus 10, TV Tokyo "

2020.3.16

Due to the influence of coronavirus, SXSW2020, which was scheduled to be exhibited, has disappeared.

2020.2.19

Won the Microsoft Imagine Cup Asian Regional Final. (Listed as NUTONE, which is the former team name)

CONCEPT

Syrinx is a new type of EL (electrolarynx) which uses machinine learning.

Approximately 300,000 people worldwide lose their voices every year due to causes such as laryngeal cancer. In Japan, 4,000 people fall a year. People who have lost their larynx or vocal cords cannot produce sound like others. And communicating with others is essential to living a daily life.

One way to get your voice back is through a machine called an electrolarynx (EL). One hand is blocked when talking using EL. Moreover, it produces only a monotonous robot-like sound. This cylindrical design has not changed for more than 20 years.

To solve these problems, we made Syrinx, a new type of hands-free EL. The neck-brace design ables the hands-free usage.

ABOUT

To generate a more user-like voice we worked on the vibration pattern of the device. These patterns highly depended on the user's voice. So we used voice processing tools to generate the vibration patterns from the user's voice.