6 days ago
Brain chip could translate thoughts into speech
Technology with the ability to decode a person's inner thoughts and translate them into speech in real time has moved a step closer after the testing of a new brain implant, scientists have claimed.
Researchers at Stanford University in California said that their device was able, with 74 per cent accuracy, to detect a person's 'inner speech' — where they imagined saying a specified set of words in their mind without any effort to physically utter them — and decipher which words they were thinking about.
They said that it could represent a breakthrough for people with various forms of paralysis or impairments that prevent them from speaking unaided and could one day 'restore communication that is as fluent, natural and comfortable as conversational speech'.
