Brain-computer interface breakthrough sees thoughts translated into speech in scientific first
6 years, 2 months ago

Brain-computer interface breakthrough sees thoughts translated into speech in scientific first

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. "Our voices help connect us to our friends, family and the world around us, which is why losing the power of one's voice due to injury or disease is so devastatting," said Professor Nima Mesgarani, a principal investigator at Columbia University who led the study. By making use of a similar computer algorithm to those found in smart assistants like Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri, the neuroengineers were able to synthesise speech from these brain patterns using a robotic voice. "Working with Dr Mehta, we asked epilepsy patients already undergoing brain surgery to listen to sentences spoken by different people, while we measured patterns of brain activity. "The sensitive vocoder and powerful neural networks represented the sounds the patients had originally listened to with surprising accuracy," said Prof Mesgarani.

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New brain-computer system allows man with MND to ‘speak’ again
7 months, 2 weeks ago

New brain-computer system allows man with MND to ‘speak’ again

The Independent  

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Scientists uses ChatGPT-like tech to read human brain and translate thoughts in real-time
1 year, 10 months ago

Scientists uses ChatGPT-like tech to read human brain and translate thoughts in real-time

Live Mint  

Scientists can now use artificial intelligence to read human brain waves and translate them into text. According to a study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, AI models powering Open AI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard can read a person's mind and reproduce the brain activity in a stream of text. I didn't know whether to scream cry or run away …

Mind Hunter: Scientists develop ChatGPT-like tool that turns people’s thoughts into text in real-time
1 year, 10 months ago

Mind Hunter: Scientists develop ChatGPT-like tool that turns people’s thoughts into text in real-time

Firstpost  

Thanks to a bunch of engineers and scientists from the University of Texas, AI-based mind-reading technology can now transcribe people’s thoughts in real time based on cerebral blood flow. Researchers claim to have created a rolling text of people’s thoughts, rather of simply single words or sentences, for the first time without utilising a brain implant. “And we want to …

Brain scans linked to ChatGPT-like AI model found capable of revealing people’s thoughts
1 year, 10 months ago

Brain scans linked to ChatGPT-like AI model found capable of revealing people’s thoughts

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence model that can read brain activity …

AI Mind Hunter: Researchers make AI bot that can read your mind and draw 80% accurate images
2 years ago

AI Mind Hunter: Researchers make AI bot that can read your mind and draw 80% accurate images

Firstpost  

Researchers from Osaka University have made a new AI bot that can read minds and then draw them using Dall-E 2 and Stable Diffusion, The sketches are up to 80 per cent accurate. ‘We show that our technique can recreate high-resolution pictures with high semantic accuracy from human brain activity,’ the researchers wrote in their paper, which was published in …

New brain-computer interface transmits thoughts to words in record time
2 years, 2 months ago

New brain-computer interface transmits thoughts to words in record time

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A team from Stanford University said the brain chip is capable of decoding up to 62 words …

Humans and AI Will Understand Each Other Better Than Ever
2 years, 3 months ago

Humans and AI Will Understand Each Other Better Than Ever

Wired  

Artificial intelligence has promised much, but there has been something holding it back from being used successfully by billions of people: a frustrating struggle for humans and machines to understand one another in natural language. This is now changing, thanks to the arrival of large language models powered by transformer architectures, one of the most important AI breakthroughs in the …

Scientists turn speech-impaired man's vocal signals into words
3 years, 8 months ago

Scientists turn speech-impaired man's vocal signals into words

The Hindu  

Researchers at University of California San Francisco have developed a system that translates signals from a speech-impaired person’s brain to the vocal tract into words that appear as text on a screen. “This is the first successful demonstration of direct decoding of full words from the brain activity of someone who is paralysed and cannot speak,” said Edward Chang, MD …

65-year-old Man with Paralysis Learns to Write Using Brain Chip That Converts Thoughts to Text
3 years, 10 months ago

65-year-old Man with Paralysis Learns to Write Using Brain Chip That Converts Thoughts to Text

News 18  

Thinking is not the same as doing. This achievement which scientists call “high-performance brain-to-text communication” was accomplished using a brain-computer interface device developed by American neuroscientists working with a research collaborative Braingate. As in this case, the participant, whose hands were paralysed because of a spinal cord injury, just thought about the hand movements and was able to write 90 …

Brain device translates thoughts directly onto a computer
3 years, 10 months ago

Brain device translates thoughts directly onto a computer

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The system, developed by the BrainGate consortium, involves an implanted sensor that records the brain signals associated …

US Army developing technology that could let soldiers read people’s minds
4 years, 4 months ago

US Army developing technology that could let soldiers read people’s minds

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Soldiers in the future may be able to communicate with their colleagues telepathically, …

Artificial intelligence translates thoughts into text using brain implant
5 years ago

Artificial intelligence translates thoughts into text using brain implant

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “A decade after speech was first decoded from human brain signals, accuracy and speed remain far below …

Brain-computer interface will make people telepathic, scientists say
5 years, 6 months ago

Brain-computer interface will make people telepathic, scientists say

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Brain-computer interfaces are already being developed by Facebook and Elon Musk’s Neuralink and the report estimates that …

Facebook says it can read thoughts with mind-reading device
5 years, 8 months ago

Facebook says it can read thoughts with mind-reading device

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Facebook is working on a headset that can transfer a person’s thoughts directly …

Synthetic speech: Virtual voicebox converts brain signals to speech using AI
5 years, 11 months ago

Synthetic speech: Virtual voicebox converts brain signals to speech using AI

Firstpost  

Researchers had better luck with some sounds like sh’s & less so with abrupt ones like b’s & p’s. People robbed of the ability to talk due to a stroke or another medical condition may soon have real hope of regaining a voice thanks to a technology that harnesses brain activity to produce synthesized speech, researchers said on Wednesday. “Clearly, …

The Machine That Reads Your Mind (Kinda) and Talks (Sorta)
5 years, 11 months ago

The Machine That Reads Your Mind (Kinda) and Talks (Sorta)

Wired  

Edward Chang keeps a cybernetic implant at his desk, which seems almost calculatedly cool. “Our job has been to understand how that electrical activity, that code of information that’s transmitted by electrical signals in the brain, actually gives rise to speech.” For going on a decade, researchers around the world have been working on this problem—trying to understand the brain’s …

New System To Translate Brain Signals into Speech Developed
6 years, 2 months ago

New System To Translate Brain Signals into Speech Developed

The Quint  

"Our voices help connect us to our friends, family and the world around us, which is why losing the power of one's voice due to injury or disease is so devastating," said Nima Mesgarani, of Columbia University in the US. We've shown that, with the right technology, these people's thoughts could be decoded and understood by any listener," said Mesgarani, …

Did you say something in your head? A machine called Alter Ego is here to 'read' your mind
6 years, 11 months ago

Did you say something in your head? A machine called Alter Ego is here to 'read' your mind

India Today  

Led by an Indian-origin student Arnav Kapur, MIT scientists in Boston manage to develop a wearable device called Alter Ego and an associated computing system that can transcribe the words that users say in their heads. Arnav Kapur has many achievements to his name, one of which dates back to before he joined the MIT Media Lab At Harvard Media …

Mind-reading headset allowing people to control computers with their thoughts described in Microsoft patent
7 years, 2 months ago

Mind-reading headset allowing people to control computers with their thoughts described in Microsoft patent

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The document describes a headset capable of “changing the state of an application by detecting neurological user …

Mind-reading device invented by scientists
7 years, 11 months ago

Mind-reading device invented by scientists

Daily Mail  

A device that reads people's minds through their brainwaves has been created by scientists. The mind-reading device could one-day be used as a 'telepathic typewriter' that autonatically writes down what people are thinking Last year scientists at UC Berkley successfully managed to playback a word that someone was thinking by monitoring their brain activity. 'Now, the challenge is to reproduce …

Device that can literally read your mind invented by scientists
7 years, 11 months ago

Device that can literally read your mind invented by scientists

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A device that can read people’s minds by detecting their brainwaves …

Newly developed AI system can efficiently lip-read better than human
8 years ago

Newly developed AI system can efficiently lip-read better than human

Firstpost  

A new software program has been developed that can lip-read as good as humans. Developed by scientists at the Oxford University this breakthrough could give people with hearing disabilities a little hope. The system is said to use computer vision and machine learning methods wherein it learns how to lip-read from a dataset included more than 5,000 hours of TV …

Machines, Lost In Translation: The Dream Of Universal Understanding
9 years, 3 months ago

Machines, Lost In Translation: The Dream Of Universal Understanding

NPR  

Machines, Lost In Translation: The Dream Of Universal Understanding Enlarge this image toggle caption Annette Elizabeth Allen/NPR Annette Elizabeth Allen/NPR It was early 1954 when computer scientists, for the first time, publicly revealed a machine that could translate between human languages. Sponsor Message Stimulating Machines' Brains After decades of jumping linguistic and technological hurdles, the technical approach scientists use today …

The mind-reading computer that could communicate with coma patients: Groundbreaking system can understand answers to simple questions from brain scans
11 years, 10 months ago

The mind-reading computer that could communicate with coma patients: Groundbreaking system can understand answers to simple questions from brain scans

Daily Mail  

The mind-reading computer that could communicate with coma patients: Groundbreaking system can understand answers to simple questions from brain scans Participants were able to answer questions just by thinking about their answer System can already distinguish between yes and no answers Canadian researchers have developing a mind-reading computer that could help communicate with people in a coma. The University of …

Breakthrough: sensors that can convert thoughts into speech
14 years, 6 months ago

Breakthrough: sensors that can convert thoughts into speech

The Hindu  

A mind reading machine has edged closer to reality after scientists found a way of converting thoughts into words. “We have been able to decode spoken words using only signals from the brain with a device that has promise for long-term use in paralysed patients who cannot speak. I would call it brain reading and we hope that in two …

Brain-Computer Interface Advances
18 years, 9 months ago

Brain-Computer Interface Advances

Wired  

Scientists at Cyberkinetics, a Foxborough, Massachusetts company working on brain-computer interface technologies, have tested their BrainGate system on the first patient who is quadriplegic and also unable to speak due to a brain stem stroke. Three patients so far have tried the system, which consists of a plug directly into the brain connected to a computer, allowing patients to move …

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