Scientists have developed a device that can translate thoughts about speech into spoken words in real time. Although it’s still experimental, they hope the brain-computer interface could some day help ...

In a recent study, scientists successfully decoded not only the words people tried to say but the words they merely imagined saying. By Carl Zimmer Carl Zimmer writes the “Origins” column for The New ...

When America’s vice-president accuses Europe of failing to protect free speech, the obvious retort is that he is a hypocrite. The White House in which J.D. Vance serves is an energetic foe of speech ...

When someone loses the ability to speak because of a neurological condition like ALS, the impact goes far beyond words. It touches every part of daily life, from sharing a joke with family to simply ...

Brain-computer interfaces, or BCIs, have the potential to transform communication for people experiencing paralysis. Whether they've experienced a traumatic injury, had a stroke, or developed a ...

If you were a little girl who couldn't speak, would you want to sound like Stephen Hawking? Hawking, the renowned physicist who has lost the ability to speak due to a neurological disorder called ...

A MAN with a debilitating neurological disorder is able to 'speak' again thanks to a computer that translates brain activity into text that is read aloud. Scientists have even been able to mimic Casey ...