The speech neuroprosthesis

AB Silva, KT Littlejohn, JR Liu, DA Moses… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Loss of speech after paralysis is devastating, but circumventing motor-pathway injury by
directly decoding speech from intact cortical activity has the potential to restore natural …

[HTML][HTML] Brain-computer interface: applications to speech decoding and synthesis to augment communication

S Luo, Q Rabbani, NE Crone - Neurotherapeutics, 2022 - Elsevier
Damage or degeneration of motor pathways necessary for speech and other movements, as
in brainstem strokes or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), can interfere with efficient …

A high-performance neuroprosthesis for speech decoding and avatar control

SL Metzger, KT Littlejohn, AB Silva, DA Moses… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Speech neuroprostheses have the potential to restore communication to people living with
paralysis, but naturalistic speed and expressivity are elusive. Here we use high-density …

Neuroprosthesis for decoding speech in a paralyzed person with anarthria

DA Moses, SL Metzger, JR Liu… - … England Journal of …, 2021 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Technology to restore the ability to communicate in paralyzed persons who
cannot speak has the potential to improve autonomy and quality of life. An approach that …

Speech synthesis from neural decoding of spoken sentences

GK Anumanchipalli, J Chartier, EF Chang - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Technology that translates neural activity into speech would be transformative for people
who are unable to communicate as a result of neurological impairments. Decoding speech …

Machine translation of cortical activity to text with an encoder–decoder framework

JG Makin, DA Moses, EF Chang - Nature neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
A decade after speech was first decoded from human brain signals, accuracy and speed
remain far below that of natural speech. Here we show how to decode the …

Real-time decoding of question-and-answer speech dialogue using human cortical activity

DA Moses, MK Leonard, JG Makin, EF Chang - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Natural communication often occurs in dialogue, differentially engaging auditory and
sensorimotor brain regions during listening and speaking. However, previous attempts to …

A speech planning network for interactive language use

GA Castellucci, CK Kovach, MA Howard III… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
During conversation, people take turns speaking by rapidly responding to their partners
while simultaneously avoiding interruption,. Such interactions display a remarkable degree …

Speech synthesis from ECoG using densely connected 3D convolutional neural networks

M Angrick, C Herff, E Mugler, MC Tate… - Journal of neural …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Direct synthesis of speech from neural signals could provide a fast and natural
way of communication to people with neurological diseases. Invasively-measured brain …

Damage to Broca's area does not contribute to long-term speech production outcome after stroke

A Gajardo-Vidal, DL Lorca-Puls, P Team, H Warner… - Brain, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Broca's area in the posterior half of the left inferior frontal gyrus has long been thought to be
critical for speech production. The current view is that long-term speech production outcome …