Turning thoughts into sounds
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abstract:
An experimental system is letting a paralyzed man turn his thoughts into the beginnings of real-time speech, according to researchers. Erik Ramsey, 26, from Georgia, in the U.S., suffered a stroke after a car accident at the age of 16, leaving him with Locked-in Syndrome.That's the same condition suffered by Rom Houben, the Belgian man who was last month discovered to have been wrongly diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state for 23 years.
"It's a pretty significant achievement to be able to achieve speech recognition from brain signals, especially from the Neurotrophic electrode, which is attached to a fairly limited number of neurons," Moore Jackson told CNN.
date of publication:
2009-12-17 00:00
news service:
CNN.com