'Could scientists turn thoughts into speech? Hope for paralyzed patients to 'talk' again

Scientists are getting closer and closer to being able to translate the thoughts of patients who have lost their speech into words. Technology has made leaps and bounds to bridge the rift that forms between mind and body when one (or both) are damaged by disease. Amputees can now be fit with futuristic mind-controlled body limbs; bionic eyes give sight to the sightless, cochlear implants allow the deaf to hear. Restoring speech, however, presents unique challenges and has mostly remained in the realm of science fiction and the (mostly) pseudoscience of telepathy. Ambitious scientists scattered across the world are on the brink of changing that with implants that act as'brain-computer interfaces' that may soon be able to broadcast the voices inside a speechless patients' heads.