Effective Phoneme Decoding With Hyperbolic Neural Networks for High-Performance Speech BCIs.

Journal: IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Speech brain-computer interfaces (speech BCIs), which convert brain signals into spoken words or sentences, have demonstrated great potential for high-performance BCI communication. Phonemes are the basic pronunciation units. For monosyllabic languages such as Chinese Mandarin, where a word usually contains less than three phonemes, accurate decoding of phonemes plays a vital role. We found that in the neural representation space, phonemes with similar pronunciations are often inseparable, leading to confusion in phoneme classification.

Authors

  • Xianhan Tan
  • Qi Lian
  • Junming Zhu
    Department of Cardiac Surgery, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
  • Jianmin Zhang
    Department of Neurosurgery, Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
  • Yueming Wang
  • Yu Qi
    Department of Thoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China.