Machine Translates Thoughts Into Speech

An anonymous reader points to this explanation of a brain-machine interface for real-time synthetic speech production, which has been successfully tested in a 26-year-old patient. From the article: "Signals collected from an electrode in the speech motor cortex are amplified and sent wirelessly across the scalp as FM radio signals. The Neuralynx System amplifies, converts, and sorts the signals. The neural decoder then translates the signals into speech commands for the speech synthesizer."

This could be really bad for men

[assemblerex]

If my thoughts PORN HARDCORE PORN can be translated to text or speech by a machine BOOBS BIG BOOBS what is to stop our government from intruding?

Re:This could be really bad for men

[DamonHD]

I'm DAMN sure that this would F***ING F***ING F*** THIS IDEA give me at least a F*** WHAT A STUPID IDEA NO NO NO Tourette syndrome or something GAWD DAMNIT like it. BLOODY HELL DAMN MUST BE POLITE SIGN OFF

Rgds

Damon

F***

Re:89% Success Rate!

[megrims]

I see you're of the "each letter only once" persuasion.

Re:Volunteer?

[erroneus]

Sorry, but I just have to roll my eyes at that comment...