Your brain is responsible for nearly all functions of your body and for interpreting sensory information from the world around you. Your brain has many parts but speech is primarily controlled by the ...

Scientists have developed a device that uses a person's brain activity to power a virtual mouth, which could one day help people who have lost the ability to speak. A range of conditions can rob a ...

A state-of-the-art brain-machine interface created by neuroscientists can generate natural-sounding synthetic speech by using brain activity to control a virtual vocal tract -- an anatomically ...

Edward Chang keeps a cybernetic implant at his desk, which seems almost calculatedly cool. Chang is a lean, low-voiced neurosurgeon at UC San Francisco. The cybernetic implant—more properly a ...

IN “BLACK MIRROR”, a British science-fiction satire series set in a dystopian near future, a young woman loses her boyfriend in a car accident. A friend offers to help her deal with her grief. The ...

Someday you may be able to sit back in Lowell Lecture Hall and hear a taped lecture delivered faster than you could read it. Spoken speeds up to 700 words a minute have been produced by an ...

Speech recognition technology is building a bridge between humans and machines, but not so much for the world’s population. Is it a problem? Or a solution? Provided byQatar Foundation Thanks to ...

ARC Raiders has long been one of my most anticipated games, but I'm also conflicted about it. The two opportunities I've had to playthe game before launch, Tech Test 2 and its recent Server Slam, have ...