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Brain implant helps woman to speak again

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August 24, 2023

A PARALYSED woman has spoken for the first time in 18 years, after she was connected to a talking avatar in a world first for medical science.

- Jim Leffman

Brain implant helps woman to speak again

Ann, 48, lost her ability to speak after she suffered a brainstem stroke at the age of 30. But she can now communicate through the on-screen graphic, which reproduces her voice and even has facial expressions to help convey what she is saying.

She worked for weeks with scientists to help train a computer system, developed using AI technology, to recognise her brain signals.

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