People’s brainwaves have been converted into speech using electrodes on the brain. The method could one day help people speak who have lost the ability.

By Chelsea Whyte.

Electrodes on the brain have been used to translate brainwaves into words spoken by a computer – which could be useful in the future to help people who have lost the ability to speak.

When you speak, your brain sends signals from the motor cortex to the muscles in your jaw, lips and larynx to coordinate their movement and produce a sound.