It was a hard fight to get insurance companies to cover dedicated text-to-speech devices for speech-impaired patients, but it finally happened in 2001, according to a report in The New York Times. Now ...
Researchers have developed a wearable, comfortable and washable device called Revoice that could help people regain the ability to communicate naturally and fluently following a stroke, without the ...
Scientists have created a device that can read a person's brain signals and translate their internal speech, at least on a modest level. Reading time 3 minutes Scientists are inching closer to making ...
New Caltech research is showing how devices implanted into people's brains, called brain-machine interfaces (BMIs), could one day help patients who have lost their ability to speak. In a new study ...
Many Australians living with neurological disorders, such as motor neuron disease and multiple sclerosis, experience speech difficulties and may lose their ability to speak. There are limited ...
Although he’s retired, 60-year-old former fashion brand executive Hirokazu Ogitsu still wears outfits that make a statement – even when he can’t. “I got cervical esophageal cancer and lost my voice ...
AlterEgo, a company born out of MIT's Media Lab, recently shared a demo of its "silent speech" device that looks like telepathy. Here's what's really going on. Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior ...
Rose covers disability and mental health, and she helps write STAT’s daily Morning Rounds newsletter. Confidential tips can be sent to Rose on Signal at rosebroderick.11. Neuroscientists inched closer ...
A groundbreaking Texas Instruments speech chip in 1978 democratized voice technology, moving it from expensive experiments to ...
Text-to-speech, sometimes abbreviated as TTS, is a feature on your computer or phone that reads on-screen text aloud to you. Depending on how it's used, text-to-speech can be a convenience feature, or ...
Former Tennessee Titans running back Chris Johnson has revealed he can no longer speak on his own after being diagnosed with ...