{"id":3414,"date":"2021-12-08T10:01:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T14:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/guentherlab\/?p=3414"},"modified":"2023-06-14T13:18:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T17:18:16","slug":"guenther-lab-brain-machine-interface-research-featured-in-wired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/guentherlab\/2021\/12\/08\/guenther-lab-brain-machine-interface-research-featured-in-wired\/","title":{"rendered":"Guenther Lab brain-machine interface research featured in WIRED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-long-search-for-a-computer-that-speaks-your-mind\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Long Search for a Computer That Speaks Your Mind<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recent article in Wired magazine discusses the history and progress of research aimed at creating a speech prosthesis, which is a brain-computer interface that can &#8220;read&#8221; what a paralyzed patient&#8217;s brain is trying to say and translate it into an acoustic signal. The particular focus is on speech prostheses that can allow the user to improve with practice; our work with Dr. Philip Kennedy in 2008-2009 was the first device of this type, though it was only capable of producing vowel sounds, not entire words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Long Search for a Computer That Speaks Your Mind A recent article in Wired magazine discusses the history and progress of research aimed at creating a speech prosthesis, which is a brain-computer interface that can &#8220;read&#8221; what a paralyzed patient&#8217;s brain is trying to say and translate it into an acoustic signal. The particular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/guentherlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/guentherlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/guentherlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/guentherlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/guentherlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3414"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/guentherlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3417,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/guentherlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414\/revisions\/3417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/guentherlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/guentherlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/guentherlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}