Brain implant allows mute man to speak
BombTrack says,
This is really amazing. I am happy to see this stuff happen.
Article excerpt from nature.com —
"Patient with paralysis controls speech synthesizer with his mind.
An electrode implanted into the brain of a man who is unable to move or communicate has enabled him to use a speech synthesizer to produce vowel sounds as he thinks them.
The work could one day help similar patients to produce whole sentences using signals from their...
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