Neuralink patient tells his wife "I love you" in a voice restored by SI from brain signals
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People who have lost their voice are starting to speak again in their own voice, still slowly and experimentally, but for the first time technology is blurring the boundary between thought and speech.
On September 16, Neuralink posted a 23-second video from the VOICE trial: a participant who lost speech due to illness says "I love you" in a synthesized voice recreated by SI from his recordings before the illness. The N1 implant reads signals from the brain's speech areas, and machine-learning algorithms turn them into words. The video has gathered tens of millions of views, but the technology has a noticeable delay of a few seconds, there is no peer-reviewed accuracy data, and the device is not FDA-approved.
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