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Attempted Speech Is Decoded Directly Into Words
From From Brain Signals to Digital Speech: The Evolution of Brain-Computer Interfaces
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Attempted Speech Is Decoded Directly Into Words
A speech neuroprosthesis decoded attempted speech from cortical activity into sentences, bypassing muscles that paralysis had disconnected from voluntary control.
Instead of spelling through cursor movement, the system recognized neural activity associated with trying to say whole words. Its vocabulary and speed were still limited, and the decoder was trained around one participant, but the result established a direct path from attempted speech to text.
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