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Fluent, a #UniMelb startup, is developing a device that records brain activity and converts it into text to assist people with impaired speech communication. Co-founder and biomedical engineer Dr Tim Mahoney said: “Our device will be positioned above an area of the brain called the motor cortex which controls speech muscles... if you think of electrical signals as QR codes: when a person speaks, every individual mouth and jaw movement produces different ‘QR codes’ in their motor cortex". The technology has been validated through preliminary human testing in electromagnetically-shielded lab rooms at the new The Aikenhead Centre for Medical Discovery in St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne. 🔗 Tap to learn more → https://unimelb.me/4xYOER1 The University of Melbourne Melbourne Enterprise David Grayden Graeme Clark Institute for Biomedical Engineering