I'm gonna leave this here... it is unbelieavable.

[INTPERSON]

http://www.physorg.com/news180620740.html

WOW. I'm too tired to absorb all this right now, but this sounds very promising, very promising indeed gentlemen.


(and ladies.)


Good night ladies :smooch:

[kuranes]

Yeah, it does look like a promising invention.

You'd be better off putting it in the Science section, even though it is also technically "news" and a "gadget" etc.

[everending]

I don't really see this as that amazing a technical advance. We're just capitalising on what's already there.

[Within]

The matrix has you!

[Qlippoth]

It's cool.. but the title is misleading. It's not really translating thought into speech, just voice motor control signals into speech. Like nervous system hack.

[rhinosaur]

It would be cooler if they didn't have to implant an electrode into your brain.

[1104]

is Stephen Hawking's talking thing any similar to this?

[carbon cold]

Stuff like this (and general cyber augmentation) is the entire reason I've chosen biology as my major.

[Eric B]

I'd rather have thoughts-to-text!

[euterpenc]

It's cool.. but the title is misleading. It's not really translating thought into speech, just voice motor control signals into speech. Like nervous system hack.

Agreed. Thought, or even language, transcends speech. If we could translate thoughts to speech, we'd be doing violence to the thought.

In any case, the technology still seems useful.

[foodeater]

They can only do vowels right now and it doesn't seem to have any practical application for people who can already talk and they only have one implanted right now so it may not be easy to port over to other people so it could be further off in true medical applications than the creators seem to hope but I can see this leading to mind-reading devices after many years of development (like those researchers in Japan who claim to be able to see images that are formed in the mind) and it's exciting that something so mechanically simple can be used to read our brain signals, also a little disappointing I guess because it means we aren't as complex as we like to think.

Also, people invoke Big Brother whenever there's an article on technological progression like this. Just an observation.

[Architectonic]

We need to resurrect those cyborg technology discussion threads..

foodeater - we might not be as complex, but certainly adaptive.
In later experiments, the volunteer received real-time auditory feedback from the speech synthesizer. During 25 sessions over a five-month period, the volunteer significantly improved the thought-to-speech accuracy. His average hit rate increased from 45% to 70% across sessions, reaching a high of 89% in the last session.

This is still an excellent proof of concept.

[Qfwfq]

Does this express your thoughts or only what you intended to say? Because I imagine you might catch yourself shouting "Slut" and "Dickweed!" more often than you like. Anyway it's really interesting.