Neuroscience Technology and Interfaces for Speech, Language, and Musical Communication

Abstract

Medical practice is extensively using monitoring devices that are more or less invasive and immersive. For aural and oral communication these could be hearing aids, prosthetics, cochlear implants, or goggles detecting vestibular effects and vertigo. Recently, a wide variety of trendy mobile or wearable devices has been offered to the general public, provoking a frenzy for augmentation alongside the great expectations that the popularization of brain-computer interfaces has caused to both the consumer market and the scientific community. The use of bionic devices clinched with synapses of the nerves does not merely mingle input activity to brain activity, but also it provides a virtual channel for augmenting and manipulating speech communication, language communication, and even further, musical communication. The electromechanical parameters, the medical practices, and the learning potential for this new world of augmented human-computer interaction platforms and devices are examined under the prism of audio communication.