"Revolutionary AI System Translates Thoughts into Speech"

Researchers have developed a non-invasive language decoder that can reconstruct speech from functional MRI data, which could help people who have lost their ability to speak due to injuries like strokes or diseases like ALS. The new AI system called a semantic decoder can decode continuously from non-invasive brain recordings, which is a first. The speech reconstructions aren't word-for-word, but can recover the "gist" of what the user is hearing. Mental privacy was an important aspect of the study, and the researchers found that someone's cooperation is necessary both to train and run the decoder.