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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...