State-of-the-art technology helps a stroke patient to make new language skills. (Image: Adobe Stock by Olecnx)
In 2005 a woman around 30-year-old lost her voice. A stroke ended her life as she knew it. Around 20 years later, thanks to the advanced implant technology and AI, she achieved something of the lost.
Researchers create thoughts out of brain activity and convert them into spoken language.
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From thoughts it becomes a voice
A team of researchers presents in a studyhow she reads the intended by an implant that reads the patterns in the brain directly and then pronounces the intended by language-to-text. The process looks like this:
- The implant recognizes the brain patterns using a AI trained with the patient over a long period of time.
- The activity in the membranes becomes text with a short delay.
- A language software reads the text. The voice of the woman served as a template by taking pictures before damage caused by the stroke.
The researchers also comment on the reasons why the quick implementation of thoughts on language is important as possible:
Language delays of more than a few seconds can interfere with the natural flow of conversation. This makes it difficult to participate in a sensible dialogue, which may lead to feelings of isolation and frustration.
That is why it literally depends on speed. Because imagine that a person, like those affected here by a stroke, wants something to conversation with several contributions and their contribution to A is only verbalized by technology if everyone is already at B. She could probably type something on a tablet and hold up for reading – the insufficient result for her personally would be similar.
Link to YouTube content
The video above on YouTube shows in a short sequence of how the woman reads sentences and the technology in a few moments transforms the activity in the brain into language:
The delay is currently still too large to achieve the goal of real-time entertainment made by the researchers himself. But you want to further optimize all systems.
Therefore, this success can be understood as the first step in the future, in which hopefully many of those affected by illnesses and accidents can be helped using the latest implant technology. This shows again as how helpful artificial intelligence proves to be in this way.
