Speech may soon be federally recognized as more than just what happens in a face-to-face conversation after thousands of people with disabilities and their advocates said that communications by phone, ...

In this 2017 photo provided by the University of California, San Francisco, neurosurgeon Dr. Edward Chang is reflected in a computer monitor displaying brain scans as he performs surgery at UCSF. In a ...

It was a hard fight to get insurance companies to cover dedicated text-to-speech devices for speech-impaired patients, but it finally happened in 2001, according to a report in The New York Times. Now ...

The productivity upside is straightforward. Research, like the Stanford report linked above, has repeatedly shown that ...

About 3 million people in the United States stutter, a speech disability that affects their career, social life and self-esteem. Robbie Passell, 27, said he last tried speech therapy in the second ...

Using a brain implant with a series of electrodes, scientists can read neurological signals and translate the brain activity into spoken language. Chang Lab / UCSF Dept. of Neurosurgery With advances ...

In recent weeks, some interesting Microsoft patents have emerged, including ideas such as an en route UAV delivery system, voice input integration with third-party apps for Cortana, and more. Now, ...

A novel study published in Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience provides the first evidence that a simple and inexpensive non-invasive speech-to-touch sensory substitution device has the potential ...

Back in the early 1980s, there was a certain fad in making your computer produce something resembling human speech. There were several hardware solutions to this, adding voices to everything from ...

In a remarkable application of modern technology, scientists at the University of California have created a device that can decode signals from the brain’s speech centers to produce speech through a ...

Someday, people who have lost their ability to speak may get their voice back. A new study demonstrates that electrical activity in the brain can be decoded and used to synthesize speech. The study, ...

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 ...