Being able to vocalize is one of the most essential elements of the human experience, with infants expected to start babbling their first words before they’re one year old, and much of their further ...

Losing the ability to speak after a brain injury or due to disease leaves a person unable to express their thoughts, feelings and ideas, and can be incredibly isolating. In two recently published ...

A new brain-computer interface (BCI) developed at UC Davis Health is able to translate brain signals into speech with up to 97% accuracy – the most accurate system of its kind.

Between commercial developers like Synchron and Elon Musk’s Neuralink, and ongoing research around the globe, it may be only a matter of time before people with paralysis, amyotrophic lateral ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

A new protocol will allow users implanted with Synchron’s brain-computer interface (BCI) device to control iPhone, iPad and Apple Vision Pro directly with their thoughts without the need for physical ...

Hume AI, a startup founded by a psychologist who specializes in measuring emotion, gives some top large language models a realistic human voice. “We specialize in building empathic personalities that ...

Last week, I discussed how generative AI and Large Language Models enable a fundamental shift away from the search bar and website link list that dominated how we have conducted internet search for ...

Wearable Devices Ltd. announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has approved its patent for a "Gesture and Voice-Controlled Interface Device," enhancing its intellectual property ...