Experimental Brain Implant Lets Man With Paralysis Turn His Thoughts Into Words

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A man who is unable to move or speak can now generate words and sentences on a computer using only his thoughts, thanks to an experimental implanted device that decodes signals in the man's brain that once control his vocal tract.

Experimental Brain Implant Lets Man With Paralysis Turn His Thoughts Into Words
A stroke left him paralyzed and speechless. Now a device that decodes brain signals is letting him generate words and sentences.
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6:50 PM · Jul 14, 2021

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/07/14/1016028911/experimental-brain-implant-lets-man-with-paralysis-turn-his-thoughts-into-words

A man who is unable to move or speak can now generate words and sentences on a computer using only his thoughts.

The ability comes from an experimental implanted device that decodes signals in the man's brain that once controlled his vocal tract, as researchers reported Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine.

The man is currently limited to a vocabulary of just 50 words and communicates at a rate of about 15 words per minute, which is much slower than natural speech.

"This tells us that it's possible," says Edward Chang, a neurosurgeon at the University of California, San Francisco. "I think there's a huge runway to make this better over time."

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[walkingman]

1. We are entering a new era of innovation in bioengineering that is amazing.

[lapfog_1]

2. star trek predicted this