Brain implant allows mute man to speak

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An electrode implanted into the brain of a man with locked-in syndrome has enabled him to use a speech synthesizer to produce vowel sounds as he thinks them. The same team is now working on a chip that can also produce consonants.

Locked-in syndrome is a type of paralysis in which patients are unable to voluntarily move anything but their eyelids. However, they are fully conscious

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