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Neuroscientists are racing to turn brain waves into speech | AI and brain implants are being leveraged to create voice neuroprostheses.


AI and brain implants are being leveraged to create voice neuroprostheses.

Investment and attention have long been focused on implants that enable severely disabled people to operate computer keyboards, control robotic arms, or regain some use of their own paralyzed limbs. Chang and colleagues, including from the University of California, Berkeley last month published a paper in Nature Neuroscience detailing their work with a woman with quadriplegia, or paralysis of the limbs and torso, who had not been able to speak for 18 years after suffering a stroke. That would enable its scientists to train their system with what could within a year be the “largest repository of high resolution neural data that exists on planet Earth,” said chief executive Michael Mager.

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