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

    Easier to sing those Peter Frampton songs...