Neuralink reports iPhone calls using its investigational speech implant

Neuralink says a 72-hour sprint at VOICE participant Kenneth's home produced Bloom phone-call integration and other communication prototypes.

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Primary source: Aligned News — AI Intelligence

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The sprint focused on software that a participant might use every day: starting speech decoding automatically, dictating into any iOS app and joining a phone call.

A seated man has a small wired disc attached to his scalp, beside a mounted phone displaying a call screen and a white robotic device.

Elon Musk's Neuralink has put its speech implant on an ordinary iPhone call. In Neuralink's October 29th post, Neuralink said engineers spent 72 hours at the home of a participant in its VOICE speech study, built a set of communication tools around him, and tested each one with him on the spot. Neuralink published the account on October 29th without giving the hackathon's exact dates. Its post notes that several interfaces underwent further iteration in the following weeks.…

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