Saying the quiet part out loud: Experimental technology turns patients’ thoughts into speech
Breakthrough in 'mind-reading' brain–computer interfaces leads to new ethical questions.
Scientists have achieved another milestone for brain–computer interfaces: turning the silent monologue in human brains into speech.
Previous systems for converting neurological signals into speech required the user to attempt movements with their mouth, the Stanford University researchers said.
However, they accomplished this based solely on the neurological signals from imagining words.
Their research, published in Cell, revealed that the neurons responsible for vocalising were largely the same as those responsible for ‘inner speech’.
