Decoded Brain Signals Could Give Voiceless People A Way To Talk

(By Jon Hamilton for NPR)

Scientists have found a way to transform brain signals into spoken words and sentences.

The approach could someday help people who have lost the ability to speak or gesture, a team from the University of California, San Francisco reported Wednesday in the journal Nature.

“Finding a way to restore speech is one of the great challenges in neurosciences,” says Dr. Leigh Hochberg, a professor of engineering at Brown University who wasn’t associated with the study. “This is a really exciting new contribution to the field.”  Continue reading article here…

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