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Morning Edition · Friday, September 18, 2026Published at 2:27 AM EDT · New York
Neuralink Publishes a Clip of a Participant With ALS Producing Audible Speech From Neural Signals
The company says the participant, implanted in January 2026, said "I love you" to his wife through a pipeline that decodes neural activity into phonemes and then words.
Neuralink released a short video from its VOICE trial showing a participant producing audible speech from neural activity alone. The clip shows the interface translating signals as the participant attempts to speak. According to reporting o…
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