A state-of-the-art brain-machine interface created by UC San Francisco neuroscientists can generate natural-sounding synthetic speech by using brain activity to control a virtual vocal tract — an ...

The average human speaks at a rate of up to 150 words per minute, making spoken conversation one of the most effective ways to communicate. “We take for granted how effortless it is to convey so much ...

[This is a serialization, with slight updates, of my 2012 article on the subject; for the Introduction (which also discusses my ambivalence about such laws), see this post.] We now turn to specific ...

Speech production is a complex neural phenomenon that has left researchers explaining it tongue-tied. Separating out the complex web of neural regions controlling precise muscle movement in the mouth, ...

Are you looking for easy and fun ways to help encourage your toddler's speech development? If so, you come to the right place. I'm going to go over some speech development facts and give you some fun ...

First author Gopala Anumanchipalli holds an array of intracranial electrodes of the type used to record brain activity in the study. (Courtesy: UCSF) Neurological conditions or injuries that result in ...

After more than a decade of development researchers at UC San Francisco have demonstrated, for the first time, a brain implant turning neural activity into full words. The first participant in the ...

Speech is produced in the human cerebral cortex. Brain waves associated with speech processes can be directly recorded with electrodes located on the surface of the cortex. It has now been shown for ...