image: In the modern day, our interactions with voice-based devices and services continue to increase. In this light, researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology and RIKEN, Japan, have performed a ...

UC researchers and the patients they work with are showing the world what's possible when the human mind and advanced computers meet.

When someone loses the ability to speak because of a neurological condition like ALS, the impact goes far beyond words. It touches every part of daily life, from sharing a joke with family to simply ...

Losing the ability to speak after a brain injury or due to disease leaves a person unable to express their thoughts, feelings and ideas, and can be incredibly isolating. In two recently published ...

We’ve covered several of the ways large language models, and more generally, a new wave of artificial intelligence software and hardware, could change the way we play games, work with our own data, ...

A Bay Area man with ALS can now communicate, all thanks to a computer linked to his brain. Casey Harrell has ALS and can't speak, but a new Brain-Computer Interface developed by researchers at UC ...

Brain-computer interfaces, or BCIs, have the potential to transform communication for people experiencing paralysis. Whether they've experienced a traumatic injury, had a stroke, or developed a ...

While it’s small enough to be an oversized wall wart, the Ubi is far more interesting for what it can do. Plug this tiny computer into an AC outlet, connect it to your Wi-Fi network, and you gain the ...

In Alexandre Dumas’s classic novel The Count of Monte Cristo, a character named Monsieur Noirtier de Villefort suffers a terrible stroke that leaves him paralyzed. Though he remains awake and aware, ...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- When Perry County detective Brian McCain was sent four years ago to become a certified user of a Computer Voice Stress Analyzer -- a truth verification device -- he was skeptical.