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A Wireless Brain-Machine Interface for Real-Time Speech Synthesis 1,2 1,3 3 4 Frank H. Guenther *, Jonathan S. Brumberg , E. Joseph Wright , Alfonso Nieto-Castanon , Jason A. 1 1 1 3 3 3,5 Tourville , Mikhail Panko , Robert Law , Steven A. Siebert , Jess L. Bartels , Dinal S. Andreasen , 6 7 3 Princewill Ehirim , Hui Mao , Philip R. Kennedy 1 Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems and Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 2 Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard University-Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, 3 Neural Signals Inc., Duluth, Georgia, United States of America, 4 StatsANC LLC, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 5 Georgia Tech Research Institute, Marietta, Georgia, United States of America, 6 Gwinnett Medical Center, Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States of America, 7 Emory Center for Systems Imaging, Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America Abstract Background: Brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) involving electrodes implanted into the human cerebral cortex have recently been developed in an attempt to restore function to profoundly paralyzed individuals. Current BMIs for restoring communication can provide important capabilities via a typing process, but unfortunately they are only capable of slow communication rates. In the current study we use a novel approach