Get the latest tech news
Scientists develop interface that ‘reads’ thoughts from speech-impaired patients
A new device could help decode inner speech in paralysis patients, potentially restoring rapid communication.
Neurosurgery Assistant Professor Frank Willett, PhD, and his teammates are using brain-computer interfaces, or BCIs, to help people whose paralysis renders them unable to speak clearly. Willett and his colleagues have previously demonstrated that, when people with paralysis try to make speaking or handwriting movements (even though they cannot, because their throat, lip, tongue and cheek muscles or the nerve connections to them are too weak), a BCI can pick up the resulting brain signals and translate them into words with high accuracy. The existence of inner speech in motor regions of the brain raises the possibility that it could accidentally “leak out”; in other words, a BCI could end up decoding something the user intended only to think, not to say aloud.
Or read this on r/technology
