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Haodong Zhang1, Wai Ting Siok1, Nizhuan Wang1

  • 1Department of Language Science and Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China.

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Imagined speech decoding in brain-computer interfaces (BCI) is not a single problem. A task-oriented framework reveals diverse decoding goals, from intent recognition to full speech reconstruction, guiding future BCI research.

Keywords:
brain–computer interface (BCI)closed-setimagined speechneural decodingopen-vocabularyoutput pathwaytask-oriented review

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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Computer Science
  • Linguistics

Background:

  • Imagined speech decoding is crucial for brain-computer interface (BCI) development, enabling language recovery from neural activity.
  • Existing research often treats imagined speech decoding as a unified problem, overlooking significant variations in goals and outputs.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review and categorize recent imagined speech decoding research using a task-oriented framework.
  • To analyze how decoding tasks are defined, constrained by output spaces, and expressed through different pathways.

Main Methods:

  • Categorization of studies into four task levels: semantic/intent, phoneme/syllable, word, and sentence/language decoding.
  • Comparison along dimensions of output-space property (e.g., closed-set) and output pathway.
  • Analysis of linguistic granularity and communication objectives.

Main Results:

  • Studies exhibit diverse linguistic granularities, ranging from low-bandwidth intent recognition to high-bandwidth text or speech reconstruction.
  • Significant differences exist in decoding targets, output constraints, and system output forms across studies.
  • A task-oriented framework highlights the heterogeneity of imagined speech decoding.

Conclusions:

  • Imagined speech decoding should not be viewed as a homogeneous problem.
  • A task-oriented framework offers a clearer basis for comparing diverse studies and advancing communication-oriented BCI research.