New thought-to-speech brain device allows for ‘natural conversation’

Neuroscientists inched closer last week to developing a commercial device that can instantly translate brain activity into speech for people with severe paralysis.

A team of researchers from University of California, Berkeley and University of California, San Francisco were able to solve a key problem for many brain-computer interfaces: lag. Their Nature Neuroscience study describes how the device shrunk the time between a person’s thoughts and how soon it broadcast the study participant’s words.

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