Tag: Edward Chang

People who are paralyzed use brain-reading devices to talk

University of California San Francisco neurosurgeon Edward Chang has said, “The effective rate of communication for existing technology is laborious at five to 15wpm…when compared to the 150 to 250wpm for natural speech.” Chang said that the implant that his team used to translate a paralysed woman’s brain signals into a synthetic voice was able to achieve low word-error rate.

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