CogNation

Episode 50: Neural Interfaces

September 20th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  31 mins 1 sec

brain, communication, mind, neural interface, neurolink, paralyzed, speech

In this half hour episode, Joe and Rolf discuss new work in neural interfaces that is helping paralyzed individuals communicate.

Episode 15: Speech Synthesis From Neural Signals

June 17th, 2019  |  Season 1  |  47 mins 13 secs

brain, cognition, language, mind, speech, speech synthesis

Joe and Rolf discuss recent research finding that recordings from the brain can be used to reconstruct the speech that is being thought about. Getting into the prospects of mind-reading and other futuristic possibilities, they discuss some of the limitations of research in the area and what makes progress so difficult.

Source material: Speech Synthesis from Neural Decoding of Spoken Sentences by G. Anumanchipalli et al. (2019)
YouTube video of the model