A high-performance speech neuroprosthesis
21 January 2023
| Speech brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have the potential to restore rapid communication to people with paralysis by decoding neural activity evoked by attempted speaking movements into text or sound.Early demonstrations, while promising, have not yet achieved accuracies high enough for communication of unconstrainted sentences from a large vocabulary. Here, we demonstrate the first speech-to-text BCI that records spiking activity from intracortical microelectrode arrays. | |
| Finally, we highlight two aspects of the neural code for speech that are encouraging for speech BCIs: spatially intermixed tuning to speech articulators that makes accurate decoding possible from only a small region of cortex, and a detailed articulatory representation of phonemes that persists years after paralysis. These results show a feasible path forward for using intracortical speech BCIs to restore rapid communication to people with paralysis who can no longer speak. | |
| Author(s) | Source |
| Willett F, Kunz E, Avansino D et al. | bioRχiv Jan 21, 2023, doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.21.524489 |
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