FDA approves first human trial for Paradromics' brain-computer interface that could restore speech for paralyzed patients ...

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, ...

US brain-computer-interface startup Paradromics is quickly establishing itself as a major player in the neural-device space, ...

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 ...

Sixteen-year-old Pranet Khetan won Samsung Solve for Tomorrow for Paraspeak, a device translating slurred Hindi speech to ...

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 ...

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, ...

In response to public comments and new med tech, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that it is expanding Medicare coverage of speech-generating devices to include devices that ...

At age nine, Arsh Shah Dilbagi asked his parents for a puppy; they gave him a Lego kit instead. Undeterred, Arsh used it to construct a dog. Now 17, the tech prodigy is still building his dreams from ...

GREENVILLE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SpeechEasy, a division of Janus Development Group, announces the release of the new Comfort Fit™ device, the fourth in the company’s line of speech devices that can ...

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 ...

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 ...