Someday, people whose ability to speak has been damaged by illness or injury may be able to vocalize anyway with the help of technology. Researchers at UC Berkeley have made strides toward translating the words a person thinks into real speech. The researchers used 15 patients undergoing neurosurgery as subjects. They placed electrodes on the subjects’ brains, then recorded the activity detected as the subjects listened to a conversation. This recorded data was reconstructed and played back. Algorithms were used to process the data.
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'Mind-Reading' Tech May Give Speechless a New Voice
Posted by: Richard Adhikari February 1, 2012 12:12 PMSomeday, people whose ability to speak has been damaged by illness or injury may be able to vocalize anyway with the help of technology. Researchers at UC Berkeley have made strides toward translating the words a person thinks into real speech. The researchers used 15 patients undergoing neurosurgery as subjects. They placed electrodes on the subjects’ brains, then recorded the activity detected as the subjects listened to a conversation. This recorded data was reconstructed and played back. Algorithms were used to process the data.