From Brain Waves to Real-Time Text Messaging

Posted on November 15th, 2022 by Lawrence Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D. For people who have lost the ability to speak due to a severe disability, they want to get the words out. They just can't physically do it. But in our digital age, there is now a fascinating way to overcome such profound physical limitations. Computers are being taught to decode brain waves as a person tries to speak and then interactively translate them onto a computer screen in real time.