BETHESDA, Md., Sept. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' National Institutes of Health issued the following press release:
A National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded scientific team has shown that a new brain-computer interface (BCI) can allow people with vocal tract and bodily paralysis to convey both speech and upper-body gestures simultaneously. While BCIs have facilitated one or the other in the past, this new system is the first to enable both modes of communication at once, more closely replicating natural expression.
Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco, used machine learning to decipher the unique brain activity that underpins concurrent speech and physical gesture in three patients. Their ...