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Rebuilding a brain-to-text decoder: from 50% to 23.5% word errors

People who can no longer speak can still try to, and the motor cortex activity from that attempt can be decoded into text. Willett et al. (Nature 2023) published the neural data behind their speech BCI, so I rebuilt the decoder from it. The model trained on CPUs for about five hours, and the word e…

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  1. 2026-10-03 06:49 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Rebuilding a brain-to-text decoder: from 50% to 23.5% word errors

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