Some Interesting Information for You

Do you have a credible source for your quoted statement?

Or, two or more?

Without any source reference, the forum has nothing but your words.

A little misleading...People don't usually think in conversational speech, but mostly pictures and memory, the ability to translate thought of words being spoken to audible speech would help those who cannot speak communicate with the outside world, a great help in the medical field...anybody who has lost the ability to speak but is still fully conscious would tell you how helpful this would be, it would be a godsend...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190129081919.htm

"... anybody who has lost the ability to speak but is still fully conscious would tell you how helpful this would be..."

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They would, would they?

They might tell someone "how belpful it is" if the tech were already available to them.

Telling someone "how helpful it would be" implies the tech is not yet available to them, i.e. they have not yet found their lost ability to tell someone about potential helpfulness.

Some people lose their ability to speak for one reason or another, but then regain it later...They would tell you that not being able to speak was frustrating because everybody thought they were unconscious, which was not the case...If they could have given instructions on what was happening it would have saved time and money and provided quicker relief....Losing the ability to communicate is very frustrating...In some instances the person can communicate but it's quite difficult and exhausting, this technology would be a great help to many....

InI agree it would be frustrating and that this type of tech could be very helpful. I was just pointing out that without the ability to communicate, regardless of their viewpoint, a person will not be telling anyone much of anything.

Roll in a drunk and let's see how it handles their form of Braille?

I expect it would be hard on a lot of marriages too.

This subject was already discussed a few months ago - see: https://cr4.globalspec.com/thread/126399/Engineers-Translate-Brain-Signals-Directly-Into-Speech

What about those that have recognizable speech that's not intelligible ?