Editing Article Page

Title

Content

<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3321/be4b76fd-4969-47a9-8083-03b10d82a37a_hq.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Scientists Create Device to Turn Brain Signals into Speech' data-article-id='3834'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='9563'>Scientists say they have created a new device that can turn brain signals into electronic speech.</span> <span data-start-time='9563' data-end-time='21792'>The invention could one day give people who have lost the ability to speak a better way of communicating than current methods.</span> <span data-start-time='21792' data-end-time='31021'>The device was developed by researchers from the University of California, San Francisco.</span> <span data-start-time='31021' data-end-time='38375'>Their results were recently published in a study in the journal Nature.</span> <span data-start-time='38375' data-end-time='46750'>Scientists created a &ldquo;brain machine interface&rdquo; that is implanted in the brain.</span> <span data-start-time='46750' data-end-time='56938'>The device was built to read and record brain signals that help control the muscles that produce speech.</span> <span data-start-time='56938' data-end-time='63479'>These include the lips, larynx, tongue and jaw.</span> <span data-start-time='63479' data-end-time='68667'>The experiment involved a two-step process.</span> <span data-start-time='68667' data-end-time='80458'>First, the researchers used a &ldquo;decoder&rdquo; to turn electrical brain signals into representations of human vocal movements.</span> <span data-start-time='80458' data-end-time='88646'>A synthesizer then turns the representations into spoken sentences.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3321/265B7EDE-5BB0-4BFD-AACC-D9FD996CEA3F_w1023_r1_s.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=12844 data-hint-location='38375' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3321/what_is_an_interface.wav'>What is an interface?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='connection between pieces of electronic equipment'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3321/a_brand_of_sneaker.wav'><span>a brand of sneaker</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3321/a_city_in_the_pacific_northwest_region_of_the_us.wav'><span>a city in the Pacific Northwest region of the US</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3321/connection_between_pieces_of_electronic_equipment.wav'><span>connection between pieces of electronic equipment</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3321/a_type_of_train_track.wav'><span>a type of train track</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=12845 data-hint-location='56938' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3321/these_include_the_lips_larynx_tongue_and_what.wav'>These include the lips, larynx, tongue and what?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='jaw'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3321/jaw.wav'><span>jaw</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3321/hands.wav'><span>hands</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3321/ankles.wav'><span>ankles</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3321/hip.wav'><span>hip</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=12846 data-hint-location='0' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3321/scientists_say_they_have_created_a_new_device_that_can_turn__blank__signals_into_electronic_speech.wav'>Scientists say they have created a new device that can turn <span class='blank'>brain</span> signals into electronic speech.</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='brain'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3321/foot.wav'><span>foot</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3321/eye.wav'><span>eye</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3321/hand.wav'><span>hand</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3321/brain.wav'><span>brain</span></div></div></div><div class='question-buttons'><button class='skip-button'></button><button class='hint-button'></button><button class='speak-button'></button></div></div></div>

Sound name

Show | Back