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  "id": 6463587,
  "title": "Pooling patient brain signals could speed brain-to-speech devices, human trial finds",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/09/pooling-patient-brain-signals-could-speed-brain-to-speech-devices",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-09T19:20:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-pooling-patient-brain-speech-devices.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Stroke, ALS and other neurodegenerative and acute brain disorders can rob people of the ability to speak. Brain-computer interfaces can restore it by translating brain activity into machine-generated speech. But they rely on patient-by-patient data collection, a major barrier to making these devices practical and widely available.",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}