PPGSpeech: A Wearable Silent Speech Interface Leveraging Neck-Worn Photoplethysmography

February 1, 2026·
Lingde Hu
Equal contribution
Wenbo Zhang
Wenbo Zhang
Equal contribution
,
Wenkang Zhang
,
Yu He
,
Seokmin Choi
,
Yang Gao
,
Jagmohan Chauhan
,
Zhanpeng Jin
· 1 min read
Abstract
PPGSpeech explores a wearable silent speech interface that leverages neck-worn photoplethysmography signals for unobtrusive speech interaction.
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In IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 13(4), pp. 6692-6703
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PPGSpeech investigates how neck-worn PPG signals can support silent speech interaction, extending wearable sensing beyond motion and biomechanics into subtle physiological signals for human-computer interaction.

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Wenbo Zhang
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PhD Candidate at SCUT
Visiting Researcher at UCL, 2026
I develop human-centered wearable systems that recover consequential physical states from multimodal sensing and turn them into useful feedback and interaction.
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