AI-powered adhesive patch converts larynx muscle movements into speech for voice disorder patients.

A new adhesive patch could help people with voice disorders speak again, using AI to read throat muscle movements and translate them into speech. Researchers revealed the small, stretchy patch in a study in Nature Communications. It converts larynx muscle movements into electrical signals, which are translated into speech by a machine learning algorithm. Currently, the patch can only relay pre-recorded phrases, but it works without picking up on vocal cord vibrations, potentially helping those with damaged vocal cords.