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Thought-to-Speech Breakthrough Lets a Disabled Patient Speak via Brain Implant

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Source: The New York Times
Thought-to-Speech Breakthrough Lets a Disabled Patient Speak via Brain Implant
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A 68-year-old Michigan woman with a paralyzing neurological disorder used Paradromics’ wireless brain implant to converse in real time, even when she only imagined speaking, as brain signals are decoded by AI and spoken aloud by a computer, letting her talk on the phone with grandchildren and marking a notable advance in brain-computer interfaces.

Topics:health#brain-computer-interface#neural-implant#paradromics#real-time-communication#science#speech-generation
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  1. Brain Implant Helps Woman Communicate in Real Time  The New York Times
  2. Simultaneous speech and gesture decoding for multimodal communication in paralysis  Nature
  3. A new device lets severely paralysed patients talk and gesture  The Economist
  4. Neuroprosthesis for paralysis enables simultaneous speech and body language  National Institutes of Health (NIH) | (.gov)
  5. Brain implant lets people with paralysis speak and gesture at the same time  New Scientist

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