Human speech sounds are produced through a coordinated movement of structures along the vocal tract. Here we show highly structured neuronal encoding of vowel articulation. In medial–frontal ...

In a recent study published in Nature Communications, researchers performed high-resolution, micro-electrocorticographic (µECoG) neural recordings for speech decoding to improve speech prostheses ...

More information: Xupeng Chen et al, A neural speech decoding framework leveraging deep learning and speech synthesis, Nature Machine Intelligence (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s42256-024-00824-8.

During both tasks, speech decoding occurred in real time; ... Speech synthesis from neural decoding of spoken sentences. Nature 2019;568:493-498. Crossref. PubMed. Web of Science. Google Scholar. 12.

Decoding our internal speech is therefore of great interest to neuroscience researchers. But the task is far from easy, as Timothée Proix, scientist in the Department of Basic Neuroscience at the ...

Neural encoding of voice pitch and formant structure at birth as revealed by frequency-following responses. Scientific Reports , 2021; 11 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-85799-x Cite This Page : ...

However, coarse neural recordings inadequately capture the rich structure of human brain signals. ... The best speech decoding rate currently available measures roughly 78 words per minute.

1. Explain the need for reliable speech-neuroprostheses for restoring communication. 2. Summarize the current most accurate approach to decoding speech from the brain. 3. Identify speech ...

The researchers used the neural recordings to generate predictive models of brain activity. The models showed that phonetic information of "glimpsed" speech was encoded in both primary and ...

Speech neuroprostheses—brain-computer interfaces capable of decoding speech based on brain activity—can provide an accessible and reliable solution for restoring communication to such patients. Unlike ...

Speech BCIs, which restore communication by decoding attempted speech from neural activity in sensorimotor cortical areas such as the ventral precentral gyrus, have also been developed. Researchers at ...

People's ability to perceive speech sounds has been deeply studied, ... Are babies born with innate abilities to perceive speech sounds, or do neural encoding processes need to age for some time?