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Paralyzed Man 'Turns Thoughts into Sounds' |
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Written by Mark Tutton - CNN
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Friday, 18 December 2009 |
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Article Source: CNN
London, England (CNN) -- An experimental system is letting a paralyzed man turn his thoughts into the beginnings of real-time speech, according to researchers.
Erik Ramsey, 26, from Georgia, in the U.S., suffered a stroke after a car accident at the age of 16, leaving him with Locked-in Syndrome.
Ramsey is completely paralyzed and currently able to communicate only by blinking his eyes. But researchers at Boston University have implanted an electrode into his brain that lets him convert his thoughts into vowel sounds produced by a voice synthesizer, according to a paper published December 9 in the online journal PLoS ONE.
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