{"id":94814,"date":"2019-08-14T17:04:09","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T00:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/neuroscientists-decode-brain-speech-signals-into-written-text"},"modified":"2019-08-14T17:04:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T00:04:09","slug":"neuroscientists-decode-brain-speech-signals-into-written-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/neuroscientists-decode-brain-speech-signals-into-written-text","title":{"rendered":"Neuroscientists decode brain speech signals into written text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neuroscientists-decode-brain-speech-signals-into-written-text2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Stephen Hawking wanted to speak, he chose letters and words from a synthesiser screen controlled by twitches of a muscle in his cheek.<\/p>\n<p>But the painstaking process the cosmologist used might soon be bound for the dustbin. With a radical new approach, doctors have found a way to extract a person\u2019s speech directly from their brain.<\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough is the first to demonstrate how a person\u2019s intention to say specific words can be gleaned from brain signals and turned into text fast enough to keep pace with natural conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Stephen Hawking wanted to speak, he chose letters and words from a synthesiser screen controlled by twitches of a muscle in his cheek. But the painstaking process the cosmologist used might soon be bound for the dustbin. With a radical new approach, doctors have found a way to extract a person\u2019s speech directly from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94814","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=94814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}