Scientists turn brain signals into speech, may help people who cannot talk

WASHINGTON - People robbed of the ability to talk due to a stroke or another medical condition may soon have real hope of regaining a voice thanks to technology that harnesses brain activity to produce synthesized speech, researchers said on Wednesday.

This speech was mostly intelligible, though somewhat slurred in parts, raising hope among the researchers that with some improvements a clinically viable device could be developed in the coming years for patients with speech loss. Some people use devices that track eye or residual facial muscle movements to laboriously spell out words letter-by-letter, but producing text or synthesized speech this way is slow, typically no more than 10 words per minute. Natural speech is usually 100 to 150 words per minute.

“Very few of us have any real idea, actually, of what’s going on in our mouth when we speak,” said neurosurgeon Edward Chang, senior author of the study published in the journal Nature. “The brain translates those thoughts of what you want to say into movements of the vocal tract, and that’s what we’re trying to decode.”

So they will know what I'm thinking? 😲

Is it possible recovery for person got Stroke

shardi596 So interesting and I wonder how maybe this can helpus understand telepathy

وكل انسان الزمناه طائره فى عنقه طائره ونخرج له يوم القيامه كتابآ يراه منشورا

This is amazing. As time goes by and this gets refined it will someday I bet not even be invasive. Which also though brings privacy concerns. Keep that in mind too.

Watch out what you think of next time

they can read thoughts then?

Science is everything. Awesome

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That's not all it allows. What's to stop this being used in interrogations? And when it's perfected - when they no longer need to implant electrodes - it's the perfect tool for state surveillance. Even the privacy of thought is now compromised.

Wow that's too appetising an image for my taste. 😏

Interesting

Whatever, I've been turning brain signals into speech for like 30 years

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