Plenary Talk: Brain-To-Speech : Neural Speech Synthesis from Brain Signals

Brain-To-Speech technology represents a fusion of interdisciplinary applications encompassing fields of artificial intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, and speech synthesis. It refers to a brain signal-mediated communication method that converts brain activities of silent or imagined speech into audible speech. Brain-To-Speech technology directly connects neural activity to the means of human linguistic communication which may greatly enhance the naturalness of communication using brain signals. With the current discoveries on neural features of imagined speech and the development of the speech synthesis technologies, direct translation of brain signals into speech has shown significant promise. This talk introduces the current Brain-To-Speech technology with the possibility of speech synthesis from non-invasive brain signals, which may ultimately facilitate silent communication via brain signals.