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, ...

Arnav Kapur wants to be very clear on something: What you’re about to see is not mind reading–even though it really looks like it. AlterEgo is an AI-enabled headset device that Kapur, an MIT Media Lab ...

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 ...

Avi Kaplan-Lipkin is retraining his tongue, to make the "r" sound. The device he's using to do it looks something like the paper noisemakers you'd buy for New Year's Eve. The device is part of a ...