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Brain-reading devices allow paralysed people to talk using their thoughts

Two studies report considerable improvements in technologies designed to help people with facial paralysis to communicate.
  1. Miryam Naddaf
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Brain-reading implants enhanced using artificial intelligence (AI) have enabled two people with paralysis to communicate with unprecedented accuracy and speed.

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Nature 620, 930-931 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02682-7

Read the related News & Views, ‘Speech-enabling brain implants pass milestones’.

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  • Correction 24 August 2023: An earlier version of this article stated that the BCI developed by Willett and colleagues worked 2.7 times faster than a previous version. This figure has now been corrected.

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