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Understanding the neural mechanisms underlying speech production is essential for both advancing cognitive neuroscience theory and developing practical communication technologies. In this study, we investigated magnetoencephalography…

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Understanding the neural mechanisms behind auditory and linguistic processing is key to advancing cognitive neuroscience. In this study, we use Magnetoencephalography (MEG) data to analyze brain responses to spoken language stimuli. We…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-08 Matteo Ciferri , Matteo Ferrante , Nicola Toschi

During speech perception, a listener's electroencephalogram (EEG) reflects acoustic-level processing as well as higher-level cognitive factors such as speech comprehension and attention. However, decoding speech from EEG recordings is…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-14 Mike Thornton , Danilo Mandic , Tobias Reichenbach

Language decoding studies have identified word representations which can be used to predict brain activity in response to novel words and sentences (Anderson et al., 2016; Pereira et al., 2018). The unspoken assumption of these studies is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Jon Gauthier , Anna Ivanova

Covert speech involves imagining speaking without audible sound or any movements. Decoding covert speech from electroencephalogram (EEG) is challenging due to a limited understanding of neural pronunciation mapping and the low…

This paper presents a method of sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) voice conversion using non-parallel training data. In this method, disentangled linguistic and speaker representations are extracted from acoustic features, and voice conversion…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-14 Jing-Xuan Zhang , Zhen-Hua Ling , Li-Rong Dai

Audio-Language models jointly learn multimodal text and audio representations that enable Zero-Shot inference. Models rely on the encoders to create powerful representations of the input and generalize to multiple tasks ranging from sounds,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Benjamin Elizalde , Soham Deshmukh , Huaming Wang

Understanding how the brain responds to sensory inputs is challenging: brain recordings are partial, noisy, and high dimensional; they vary across sessions and subjects and they capture highly nonlinear dynamics. These challenges have led…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-03 Omar Chehab , Alexandre Defossez , Jean-Christophe Loiseau , Alexandre Gramfort , Jean-Remi King

Word discovery is the task of extracting words from unsegmented text. In this paper we examine to what extent neural networks can be applied to this task in a realistic unwritten language scenario, where only small corpora and limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Marcely Zanon Boito , Alexandre Berard , Aline Villavicencio , Laurent Besacier

Brain-related research topics in artificial intelligence have recently gained popularity, particularly due to the expansion of what multimodal architectures can do from computer vision to natural language processing. Our main goal in this…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-01 Youssef Hmamouche , Ismail Chihab , Lahoucine Kdouri , Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni

This paper introduces a novel algorithm designed for speech synthesis from neural activity recordings obtained using invasive electroencephalography (EEG) techniques. The proposed system offers a promising communication solution for…

Speech Neuroprostheses have the potential to enable communication for people with dysarthria or anarthria. Recent advances have demonstrated high-quality text decoding and speech synthesis from electrocorticographic grids placed on the…

Predictive coding theory suggests that the brain continuously anticipates upcoming words to optimize language processing, but the neural mechanisms remain unclear, particularly in naturalistic speech. Here, we simultaneously recorded EEG…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-11 Nikola Kölbl , Konstantin Tziridis , Andreas Maier , Thomas Kinfe , Ricardo Chavarriaga , Achim Schilling , Patrick Krauss

Brain activity translation into human language delivers the capability to revolutionize machine-human interaction while providing communication support to people with speech disability. Electronic decoding reaches a certain level of…

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Decoding non-invasive brain recordings is pivotal for advancing our understanding of human cognition but faces challenges due to individual differences and complex neural signal representations. Traditional methods often require customized…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Guobin Shen , Dongcheng Zhao , Xiang He , Linghao Feng , Yiting Dong , Jihang Wang , Qian Zhang , Yi Zeng

Typically, unsupervised segmentation of speech into the phone and word-like units are treated as separate tasks and are often done via different methods which do not fully leverage the inter-dependence of the two tasks. Here, we unify them…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-12 Saurabhchand Bhati , Jesús Villalba , Piotr Żelasko , Laureano Moro-Velazquez , Najim Dehak

Objective: EEG-based methods can predict speech intelligibility, but their accuracy and robustness lag behind behavioral tests, which typically show test-retest differences under 1 dB. We introduce the multi-decoder method to predict speech…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-04 Rien Sonck , Bernd Accou , Tom Francart , Jonas Vanthornhout

We propose EEG2TEXT-CN, which, to the best of our knowledge, represents one of the earliest open-vocabulary EEG-to-text generation frameworks tailored for Chinese. Built on a biologically grounded EEG encoder (NICE-EEG) and a compact…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Jacky Tai-Yu Lu , Jung Chiang , Chi-Sheng Chen , Anna Nai-Yun Tung , Hsiang Wei Hu , Yuan Chiao Cheng

Brain decoding has emerged as a rapidly advancing and extensively utilized technique within neuroscience. This paper centers on the application of raw electroencephalogram (EEG) signals for decoding human brain activity, offering a more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Zenon Lamprou , Yashar Moshfeghi

Many recent studies have shown that the perception of speech can be decoded from brain signals and subsequently reconstructed as continuous language. However, there is a lack of neurological basis for how the semantic information embedded…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Congchi Yin , Ziyi Ye , Piji Li