People unable to communicate due to injury or brain damage may one day speak again
Instead of trying to directly translate the electrical activity to speech, the team behind the study, published in the journal Nature, adopted a three-stage approach.
LISTEN | The University of California San Francisco used an implant to scan the brain signals of volunteers reading sentences aloud. This is the 'synthetic speech' reconstructed from those signals "The brain translates those thoughts into movements of the vocal tract and that's what we're trying to decode."
"We used sentences that are particularly geared towards covering all of the phonetic contexts of the English language," he said."But they are only learned so they can be generalised from."
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