Talking Brains

This, while preliminary, is pretty amazing. Scientists have been able to synthesize speech from the electrical impulses produced by the human brain at near conversational speeds and with fair accuracy.


By matching the frequencies being generated in the cortex, the software tries to predict the phrases that the patients wants to say and via a synthesizer, says them out loud. The process can take as little as 50 milliseconds, about the same amount of time it takes an average person to do exactly the same thing with his or her mouth.
A blog post about it is here. The research paper can be found here.