New Tech Converts Thoughts to Speech, Could Give Voice to the Voiceless

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By Roni Dengler
Apr 25, 2019 12:37 AMNov 20, 2019 1:19 AM
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Stephen Hawking attends a dinner at Tel Aviv University. (Credit: The World in HDR/Shutterstock) Throat cancer, stroke and paralysis can rob people’s voices and strip away their ability to speak. Now, researchers have developed a decoder that translates brain activity into a synthetic voice. The new technology is a significant step toward restoring lost speech. “We want to create technologies that can reproduce speech directly from human brain activity,” Edward Chang, a neurosurgeon at the University of California San Francisco, who led the new research, said in a press briefing. “This study provides a proof of principle that this is possible.”

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