Bionic speech recognition

As speech recognition systems become more commonplace – on the computer desktop top, at the call centre and even in the car – it is increasingly important to ensure that the voice signal is as clear as possible before it is processed by a computer a…

The brain speaks

SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 7, 2010 — In an early step toward letting severely paralyzed people speak with their thoughts, University of Utah researchers translated brain signals into words using two grids of 16 microelectrodes imp…