{"id":113394,"date":"2020-09-24T20:37:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T03:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/mind-reading-device-uses-ai-to-turn-brainwaves-into-audible-speech"},"modified":"2020-09-24T20:37:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T03:37:47","slug":"mind-reading-device-uses-ai-to-turn-brainwaves-into-audible-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/mind-reading-device-uses-ai-to-turn-brainwaves-into-audible-speech","title":{"rendered":"Mind-reading device uses AI to turn brainwaves into audible speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mind-reading-device-uses-ai-to-turn-brainwaves-into-audible-speech2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>People\u2019s brainwaves have been converted into speech using electrodes on the brain. The method could one day help people speak who have lost the ability.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>By Chelsea Whyte.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2163949-electrodes-fitted-behind-your-ear-can-make-you-walk-faster\/\">Electrodes<\/a> on the brain have been used to translate brainwaves into words spoken by a computer \u2013 which could be useful in the future to help people who have lost the ability to speak.<\/p>\n<p>When you speak, your brain sends signals from the motor cortex to the muscles in your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2196580-humans-couldnt-pronounce-f-and-v-sounds-before-farming-developed\/\">jaw, lips and larynx<\/a> to coordinate their movement and produce a sound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People\u2019s brainwaves have been converted into speech using electrodes on the brain. The method could one day help people speak who have lost the ability. By Chelsea Whyte. Electrodes on the brain have been used to translate brainwaves into words spoken by a computer \u2013 which could be useful in the future to help people [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}