Brain chip helps voiceless patient communicate at 62 words per minute

Using brain implants, machine learning and a predictive model, researchers at Stanford Medicine and Wu Tsai Neuro decoded a woman’s attempts to speak at a rate that begins to approach natural conversation.

brain chip helps voiceless patient communicate
Steve Fisch
The Neural Prosthetics Translational Lab team exchange smiles with their ALS trial participant. Photo by Steve Fisch.