External voice box prototype helps cancer, stroke patients again speech

By Brian heater posted Apr 20 2011 4:04 PM a team of British scientists developed a headset, the votes back to which can bring, who have lost their speech due to injuries, cancer, stroke and other diseases. She hope that the prototype-the magnets in the mouth of the user or the tongue verwendet-positioned - the low tech solutions such as throat valves, will take place that have clogged the trend. If he or she speaks, changes to the magnets are detected movements of the device, associated special facial movements with corresponding words (it currently has a vocabulary of about 50). It is still pretty hefty as by the image on the right side, but researchers working on the timpani of the technology in a device about the size of a Bluetooth headset. You work well on the way to the implant magnets in the tongue of Tr?gers--positioning which magnets in the wearer's mouth is one of the greatest difficulties in the implementation of the technology.

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