Neural decoding advances from imagined speech toward everyday communication

A nine-participant high-density ECoG study reported 80.4% median imagined-speech decoding accuracy, while Neuralink has demonstrated VOICE functions without reporting accuracy or response-time metrics. Cognixion plans a 30-person, 12-week home-use ALS trial comparing three communication options, but has not reported results; Neuralink’s Blindsight engineering-readiness claim does not establish clinical readiness, and a new EEG-to-text description lacks enough methods or results to assess.