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Previous research has demonstrated the potential of using pre-trained language models for decoding open vocabulary Electroencephalography (EEG) signals captured through a non-invasive Brain-Computer Interface (BCI). However, the impact of…

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We present a textless speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) system that can translate speech from one language into another language and can be built without the need of any text data. Different from existing work in the literature, we tackle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Ann Lee , Hongyu Gong , Paul-Ambroise Duquenne , Holger Schwenk , Peng-Jen Chen , Changhan Wang , Sravya Popuri , Yossi Adi , Juan Pino , Jiatao Gu , Wei-Ning Hsu

Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) are an important mode of alternative and augmentative communication for many people. Unlike keyboards, many BCI systems do not display even the 26 letters of English at one time, let alone all the symbols in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Shijia Liu , David A. Smith

Data-to-text (D2T) generation is a crucial task in many natural language understanding (NLU) applications and forms the foundation of task-oriented dialog systems. In the context of conversational AI solutions that can work directly with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Vibhav Agarwal , Sourav Ghosh , Harichandana BSS , Himanshu Arora , Barath Raj Kandur Raja

Decoding brain activity into natural language is a major challenge in AI with important applications in assistive communication, neurotechnology, and human-computer interaction. Most existing Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) approaches rely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Akshaj Murhekar , Christina Liu , Abhijit Mishra , Shounak Roychowdhury , Jacek Gwizdka

Decoding language from brain dynamics is an important open direction in the realm of brain-computer interface (BCI), especially considering the rapid growth of large language models. Compared to invasive-based signals which require…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yiqian Yang , Yiqun Duan , Qiang Zhang , Hyejeong Jo , Jinni Zhou , Won Hee Lee , Renjing Xu , Hui Xiong

The inter/intra-subject variability of electroencephalography (EEG) makes the practical use of the brain-computer interface (BCI) difficult. In general, the BCI system requires a calibration procedure to tune the model every time the system…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Dong-Kyun Han , Serkan Musellim , Dong-Young Kim , Ji-Hoon Jeong

Direct speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) is among the most challenging problems in the translation paradigm due to the significant scarcity of S2ST data. While effort has been made to increase the data size from unlabeled speech by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Xuan-Phi Nguyen , Sravya Popuri , Changhan Wang , Yun Tang , Ilia Kulikov , Hongyu Gong

Research on speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) has progressed rapidly in recent years. Many end-to-end systems have been proposed and show advantages over conventional cascade systems, which are often composed of recognition, translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Xinjian Li , Ye Jia , Chung-Cheng Chiu

Decoding speech from brain activity is a long-awaited goal in both healthcare and neuroscience. Invasive devices have recently led to major milestones in that regard: deep learning algorithms trained on intracranial recordings now start to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-06 Alexandre Défossez , Charlotte Caucheteux , Jérémy Rapin , Ori Kabeli , Jean-Rémi King

State-of-the-art brain-to-text systems have achieved great success in decoding language directly from brain signals using neural networks. However, current approaches are limited to small closed vocabularies which are far from enough for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Zhenhailong Wang , Heng Ji

Brain signals accompany various information relevant to human actions and mental imagery, making them crucial to interpreting and understanding human intentions. Brain-computer interface technology leverages this brain activity to generate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Jung-Sun Lee , Ha-Na Jo , Seo-Hyun Lee

Modern language models mostly take sub-words as input, a design that balances the trade-off between vocabulary size, number of parameters, and performance. However, sub-word tokenization still has disadvantages like not being robust to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Chu-Tak Lee , Qipeng Guo , Xipeng Qiu

This paper presents BELT, a novel model and learning framework for the pivotal topic of brain-to-language translation research. The translation from noninvasive brain signals into readable natural language has the potential to promote the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Jinzhao Zhou , Yiqun Duan , Yu-Cheng Chang , Yu-Kai Wang , Chin-Teng Lin

Non-invasive Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) offer a safe and accessible means of connecting the human brain to external devices, with broad applications in home and clinical settings to enhance human capabilities. However, the high noise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Jiamin Wu , Zichen Ren , Junyu Wang , Pengyu Zhu , Yonghao Song , Mianxin Liu , Qihao Zheng , Lei Bai , Wanli Ouyang , Chunfeng Song

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) with speech decoding from brain recordings have broad application potential in fields such as clinical rehabilitation and cognitive neuroscience. However, current decoding methods remain limited to…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-05 Yi Guo , Yihang Dong , Michael Kwok-Po Ng , Shuqiang Wang

Deciphering natural language from brain activity through non-invasive devices remains a formidable challenge. Previous non-invasive decoders either require multiple experiments with identical stimuli to pinpoint cortical regions and enhance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Cenyuan Zhang , Xiaoqing Zheng , Ruicheng Yin , Shujie Geng , Jianhan Xu , Xuan Gao , Changze Lv , Zixuan Ling , Xuanjing Huang , Miao Cao , Jianfeng Feng

A brain-computer interface (BCI) is a technology that enables direct communication between the brain and an external device or computer system. It allows individuals to interact with the device using only their thoughts, and holds immense…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Xin Zhou , Botao Hao , Jian Kang , Tor Lattimore , Lexin Li

Information Retrieval (IR) systems primarily rely on users' ability to translate their internal information needs into (text) queries. However, this translation process is often uncertain and cognitively demanding, leading to queries that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Niall McGuire , Yashar Moshfeghi

Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) bridges the human's neural world and the outer physical world by decoding individuals' brain signals into commands recognizable by computer devices. Deep learning has lifted the performance of brain-computer…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Xiang Zhang , Lina Yao , Xianzhi Wang , Jessica Monaghan , David Mcalpine , Yu Zhang