Scientists may soon be able to interpret what someone is saying simply by analysing their brainwaves as they speak. This revolutionary advance in neuroscience would help millions of people who suffer from communication problems and neurological disorders. scientists developed form of artificial intelligence that can decode brainwaves and translate them into text. Algorithms take brain activity created as person speaks and translates it in real time into sentences on screen. The scientists are from University of California, San Francisco. They say their algorithms have 97 per cent translation accuracy rate but are working hard to improve on this.
scientists say they are at early stages of being able to machine-translate everything someone says. software used in their experiments matched features of speech that were repeated frequently to parts and shapes of mouth. These included elements of English speech such as vowels, consonants and commands. experiments were limited to around 40 short and simply-constructed spoken sentences. scientists said: "Although we should like decoder to learn and exploit regularities of language, it remains to show how many data would be required to expand from our tiny languages to more general form of English."
