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 ...

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[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 ...

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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 ...