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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Biomedical Engineering

Background:

  • Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have advanced language decoding, primarily for alphabetic languages like English.
  • Logosyllabic languages, such as Mandarin Chinese, pose unique challenges due to extensive character sets and complex syllable structures.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a brain-to-sentence decoder for Mandarin Chinese, covering its full character set.
  • To overcome the limitations of current BCIs in decoding complex, logosyllabic languages.

Main Methods:

  • Leveraged acoustic features of Mandarin Chinese syllables to build prediction models for initials, tones, and finals.
  • Utilized stereoelectroencephalography (sEEG) signals for decoding speech.
  • Incorporated acoustic-related features into prediction model design.

Main Results:

  • Achieved a median sentence-level character accuracy of 71.00% for Mandarin Chinese decoding in the best participant.
  • Demonstrated substantial accuracy improvements for initials, tones, and finals by incorporating acoustic features.
  • Identified involvement of subcortical structures, including the thalamus, in speech decoding.

Conclusions:

  • Established a functional brain-to-sentence decoder for logosyllabic languages using a large intracranial electroencephalography dataset.
  • Validated the effectiveness of acoustic feature integration for enhancing decoding accuracy.
  • Expanded the scope of BCIs to encompass the complexities of languages like Mandarin Chinese.