TAS Communication System

"The technical goal of the project is to deliver a hands-free, two-way communication system which provides speech intelligibility of 92% on the Modified Rhyme Test in extreme high noise environments (115-125dBA). The objective is achieved by delivering abattery powered transceiver which provides communication through the dental bone conduction pathways of speech and hearing. This pathway is significantly less sensitive to ambient noise than communication systems used currently in extreme noiseenvironments. The communication system is called the Tooth Actuator Sensor or TAS Communication System. The novel components of the system are: (1)An intraoral battery powered transceiver capable of send and receive; (2) An actuator-sensor based on aninnovative design; (3) An extraoral transceiver capable of interfacing to a COTS two-way radio. The TAS should be capable of providing communication while on-the-run or under a wide variety of facemasks."