When someone loses the ability to speak because of a neurological condition like ALS, the impact goes far beyond words. It touches every part of daily life, from sharing a joke with family to simply ...

The motor cortex (orange, illustration). Electrodes implanted in this region helped to record the speech-related brain activity of a man who could not speak intelligibly. A man with a severe speech ...

An Army veteran with vocal cord atrophy underwent two years of therapy to sing to his wife on their 66th anniversary Jerome, a 91-year-old Army veteran, has been struggling with vocal cord atrophy, an ...

A man with a severe speech disability is able to speak expressively and sing using a brain implant that translates his neural activity into words almost instantly. The device conveys changes of tone ...