Towards reconstructing intelligible speech from the human auditory cortex

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 9; no. 1; p. 874
• Main Authors: Akbari, Hassan, Khalighinejad, Bahar, Herrero, Jose L., Mehta, Ashesh D., Mesgarani, Nima
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 29.01.2019; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 631/378/116/2394; 631/378/2619/2618; Brain; Computer applications; Cortex (auditory); Humanities and Social Sciences; Implants; multidisciplinary; Neural networks; Prosthetics; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Speech; Voice simulation

Auditory stimulus reconstruction is a technique that finds the best approximation of the acoustic stimulus from the population of evoked neural activity. Reconstructing speech from the human auditory cortex creates the possibility of a speech neuroprosthetic to establish a direct communication with...