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‘Neuroprosthesis for decoding speech in a paralyzed person with anarthria’ with David Moses and Jessie Liu

The Language Neuroscience Podcast

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How Did You Select the 50 Words?

Pancho essentially cannot speak at all, it's not a feasible approach. We decided that 50 words was a good size to start because it should be enough to give rise to a variety of sentences while also not being too much to make the decoding too difficult for this kind of proof of concept demonstration. And so we settled on these 50 words that contain common English words, words that are relevant to caregiving, such as like thirsty and family. Can you remember any words that he chose to add? I think one of them is faith. Success, I think with another one. The other thing is that his behavior is very variable because it is hard for him to say these things out loud

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