Brain Chip Helps Voiceless Patient Communicate

Thanks to AI technology, a patient robbed of her ability to speak communicated 62 words a minute

Scientists from Stanford University published findings this week describing training an algorithm to decode the guttural utterances of an ALS patient into text with better than 75 percent accuracy.  

The result is a milestone in restoring the ability to communicate to people who have lost it, more than three times as fast as the previous record, reports The Washington Post. 

Because the study used tools that are rapidly expanding, the hope is that even better outcomes are in sight. 

To read more about this breakthrough study, check out the story in The Washington Post.