How neuroengineering can translate brain signals into speech

Modern-day medical sciences have welcomed significant technologies. While there are several new breakthroughs in the medical field, there are also those that help us understand the human physiology better.

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One such technology can be found in neuroengineering and its latest attempt in translating brain signals into speech. According to neuroengineering expert Dr. Curtis Cripe of the NTL Group, this new development has potentially boundless applications in the field of medicine and technology in general. What does this technology do specifically?

Firstly, this new technology is able to reconstruct the words that a person can hear by monitoring brain activity. And through the power of speech synthesizers and AI, it represents a new way to directly communicate with the brain. What it can mainly do is translate thoughts into something intelligible such as speech.

Lines of communication are transformed and received by the brain as signals. This process includes imagining speaking or internal dialogues, listening to someone actually speak, actual speaking, or even imagining someone else speak. And one of the goals of current research is to translate brain signals into speech at will.

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This technology is groundbreaking in terms of possible applications in the field of medicine as well as communication. According to Dr. Curtis Cripe, the research is deemed as groundwork for helping those who are unable to speak. These could concern people with disabilities from birth such as muteness and deafness, as well as those with medical conditions such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or other illnesses that prevent them from speaking.

Dr. Curtis Cripe is the head of research and development at the NTL Group, which specializes in neuroengineering programs aimed at the diagnosis and treatment of neurological disorders connected to head injury, depression, anxiety, memory disorders, and learning disorders. To know more about Dr. Cripe and his works, visit this website.