Video from Neuralink, in which an ALS patient who lost the ability to speak addresses his wife in a reconstruction of his voice, has amassed millions of views. But academic labs have been translating brain activity into speech for years, and one patient in California has been doing it at home for more than two years. Dr. Daniel Zarchin explains what is actually being decoded inside the head, and why the real test is measured in years rather than in videos.
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