German and U.S. researchers have decoded natural continuously spoken speech from brain waves and transformed it into text — a step toward communication with computers or humans by thought alone.
Their “Brain-to-Text” system recorded signals from an electrocorticographic (ECoG)* electrode array located on relevant surfaces of the frontal and temporal lobes of the cerebral cortex of seven epileptic patients, who participated voluntarily in the study during their clinical treatment.
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Ref: Brain-to-text: decoding spoken phrases from phone representations in the brain. Frontiers in Neuroscience (2015) | http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2015.00217
Speech brain waves can now be recorded accurately into text - Advancing communication with future machines
