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Electrode Implant Gives Mute Man a (Synthesized) Voice

Posted by timothy on from the paradoxically-enough dept.

Iddo Genuth writes with an excerpt from The Future of Things: "A surgical procedure performed by a team from Boston University, Massachusetts led by Professor Frank Guenther, has enabled a mute man to speak again. An electrode implanted in the patient's brain made it possible for the patient to produce vowels by thinking them, using a speech synthesizer. In the future, this breakthrough may help patients with similar injuries produce entire sentences, using signals from their brains."

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  1. Using your brain to talk ... by zindorsky · · Score: 5, Funny

    Using your brain to talk ... just imagine what that would mean for Slashdot! Total upheaval.

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    1. Re:Using your brain to talk ... by Your.Master · · Score: 4, Funny

      Or complete silence.

    2. Re:Using your brain to talk ... by Chris+Burke · · Score: 4, Funny

      If I involuntarily said whatever I was thinking, my girlfriend would never stop slapping me.

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    3. Re:Using your brain to talk ... by rudeboy1 · · Score: 4, Funny

      I think my girlfriend would forgive me, but I'm pretty sure I'd find myself out of a job, in a dozen harrassment suits, and pepper-sprayed blind, and that's just by the end of the week.

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  2. Oh dear by Roland+Piquepaille · · Score: 4, Funny

    [...] made it possible for the patient to produce vowels by thinking them

    I hope the guy isn't welsh...

  3. Do You Feel Like We Do by devotedlhasa · · Score: 5, Funny

    Easier to sing those Peter Frampton songs...