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A high-performance speech neuroprosthesis

Willett, Francis R., Kunz, Erin M., Fan, Chaofei, Avansino, Donald T., Wilson, Guy H, Choi, Eun Young, Kamdar, Foram B., Glasser, Matthew F.
Nature, 2023

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Read the source doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06377-x

Author list truncated to the first eight as printed by the scout. One participant with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Findings

Communication rate: 62 words min⁻¹
Speech-to-text decoding of attempted speech from intracortical microelectrode arrays, one participant, 125,000-word vocabulary at 23.8% word error rate.
Our participant’s attempted speech was decoded at 62 words per minute

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