{"id":210198,"date":"2025-03-31T17:06:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T22:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/us-brain-to-speech-breakthrough-helps-paralyzed-people-talk-again"},"modified":"2025-03-31T17:06:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T22:06:20","slug":"us-brain-to-speech-breakthrough-helps-paralyzed-people-talk-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/us-brain-to-speech-breakthrough-helps-paralyzed-people-talk-again","title":{"rendered":"US: Brain-to-speech breakthrough helps paralyzed people talk again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xT3l81WbuGE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The key to this development is an AI-powered streaming method. By decoding brain signals directly from the motor cortex \u2013 the brain\u2019s speech control center \u2013 the AI synthesizes audible speech almost instantly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur streaming approach brings the same rapid speech decoding capacity of devices like Alexa and Siri to neuroprostheses,\u201d said Gopala Anumanchipalli, co-principal investigator of the study.<\/p>\n<p>Anumanchipalli added, \u201cUsing a similar type of algorithm, we found that we could decode neural data and, for the first time, enable near-synchronous voice streaming. The result is more naturalistic, fluent speech synthesis.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The key to this development is an AI-powered streaming method. By decoding brain signals directly from the motor cortex \u2013 the brain\u2019s speech control center \u2013 the AI synthesizes audible speech almost instantly. \u201cOur streaming approach brings the same rapid speech decoding capacity of devices like Alexa and Siri to neuroprostheses,\u201d said Gopala Anumanchipalli, co-principal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210198","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}