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The brain implant that turns thoughts into text

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How Do You Translate Brain Signals Into Written Text?

Sobesa works by recording the noral activity in some way. So here it was recorded with an implanted array of electrodes. Then there's some algaritm that finds irrelevant patterns in that activity and translates it. Instead of your moving a single ser from key to key, instead you're trying to handwrite something. You're just quickly trying to write the string of letters, and we show that on the screen. And how does that work? That's the magic, that's the secret sauce of the agritm.

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