New AI-enabled tool may translate thoughts into speech

New York: US engineers developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled system that can translate brain signals into intelligible speech, a breakthrough that may help those who cannot speak to communicate with the outside world. The study, led by Columbia University researchers, showed that by monitoring one’s brain activity, an AI-enabled technology can reconstruct words a person hears with unprecedented clarity, Xinhua news agency reported. A team of neuroscientists from the varsity trained a voice synthesiser or vocoder to measure brain activity patterns of epilepsy patients already undergoing surgery while those patients listened to sentences spoken by different people. Those patients listened to speakers reading digits between zero to nine while recording brain signals via the vocoder. (IANS)

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