Bilingual Brain-Reading Implant Decodes Spanish and English

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May 23, 2024, 11:00 AM

• •A first-of-a-kind AI system enables a person with paralysis to communicate in two languages.
• •The findings, published on 20 May in Nature Biomedical Engineering, provide insights into how our brains process language.
• •The person at the heart of the study, who goes by the nickname Pancho, had a stroke at age 20 that paralysed much of his body.

A brain implant has helped a bilingual person who is unable to articulate words to communicate in both of his languages. An artificial-intelligence (AI) system coupled to the brain implant decodes, in real time, what the individual is trying to say in either Spanish or English.

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