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ArticleScientific reports2024

Feasibility of decoding covert speech in ECoG with a Transformer trained on overt speech.

Shuji Komeiji, Takumi Mitsuhashi, Yasushi Iimura, Hiroharu Suzuki, Hidenori Sugano, Koichi Shinoda, Toshihisa Tanaka

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Shuji KomeijiDepartment of Electronic and Information Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, 2-24-16 Naka-cho, Koganei-shi, Tokyo, 184-8588, Japan.
Takumi MitsuhashiDepartment of Neurosurgery, Juntendo University School of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8421, Japan.
Yasushi IimuraDepartment of Neurosurgery, Juntendo University School of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8421, Japan.
Hiroharu SuzukiDepartment of Neurosurgery, Juntendo University School of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8421, Japan.
Hidenori SuganoDepartment of Neurosurgery, Juntendo University School of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8421, Japan.
Koichi ShinodaDepartment of Computer Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 152-8550, Japan.
Toshihisa TanakaDepartment of Electronic and Information Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, 2-24-16 Naka-cho, Koganei-shi, Tokyo, 184-8588, Japan. tanakat@cc.tuat.ac.jp.

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JSPS KAKENHI 20H00235
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Abstract

Several attempts for speech brain-computer interfacing (BCI) have been made to decode phonemes, sub-words, words, or sentences using invasive measurements, such as the electrocorticogram (ECoG), during auditory speech perception, overt speech, or imagined (covert) speech. Decoding sentences from covert speech is a challenging task. Sixteen epilepsy patients with intracranially implanted electrodes participated in this study, and ECoGs were recorded during overt speech and covert speech of eight Japanese sentences, each consisting of three tokens. In particular, Transformer neural network model was applied to decode text sentences from covert speech, which was trained using ECoGs obtained during overt speech. We first examined the proposed Transformer model using the same task for training and testing, and then evaluated the model's performance when trained with overt task for decoding covert speech. The Transformer model trained on covert speech achieved an average token error rate (TER) of 46.6% for decoding covert speech, whereas the model trained on overt speech achieved a TER of 46.3%

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Brain-Computer InterfacesElectrocorticographySpeechAdolescentAdultEpilepsyFeasibility StudiesFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedNeural Networks, ComputerSpeech PerceptionYoung Adult

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PMID38769115
PMCPMC11106343

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