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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. Re:I am an optimist... I hope! by coolsnowmen · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is no way Stephen Hawking had to go to a surplus store to get a Centrino Pentium M, running XP, made by Intel for him repaired.

    And the software "Equalizer" was ported to XP for him.

    In short, I call BS.