A state-of-the-art brain-machine interface created by UC San Francisco neuroscientists can generate natural-sounding synthetic speech by using brain activity to control a virtual vocal tract — an ...

The average human speaks at a rate of up to 150 words per minute, making spoken conversation one of the most effective ways to communicate. “We take for granted how effortless it is to convey so much ...

Researchers assessed volunteers’ brain activity while they listened to stories, showing that strokes disrupt how the brain ...

[This is a serialization, with slight updates, of my 2012 article on the subject; for the Introduction (which also discusses my ambivalence about such laws), see this post.] We now turn to specific ...

Someday, people who have lost their ability to speak may get their voice back. A new study demonstrates that electrical activity in the brain can be decoded and used to synthesize speech. The study, ...

Speech production is a complex neural phenomenon that has left researchers explaining it tongue-tied. Separating out the complex web of neural regions controlling precise muscle movement in the mouth, ...

First author Gopala Anumanchipalli holds an array of intracranial electrodes of the type used to record brain activity in the study. (Courtesy: UCSF) Neurological conditions or injuries that result in ...

Are you looking for easy and fun ways to help encourage your toddler's speech development? If so, you come to the right place. I'm going to go over some speech development facts and give you some fun ...

Artificial intelligence is enabling many scientific breakthroughs, especially in fields of study that generate high volumes of complex data such as neuroscience. As impossible as it may seem, ...