Neuralink says Terry, a VOICE trial participant who cannot speak, trained the system by miming speech and then by thinking words, hearing them come out in a voice rebuilt from pre-illness recordings. Neuralink says the pipeline runs on Grok Voice. No vocabulary size, accuracy, latency or participant count has been published — and with a generative model between the electrode and the speaker, those numbers are the only way to know how much came out of the brain.
Roughly sixteen people carry a company's brain implant. In 2026 the field crossed from trials into products: China approved and implanted the first commercial invasive BCI, and Europe cleared the first BCI to restore reading vision — both ahead of Neuralink.
A Vancouver police sergeant with ALS became the first patient implanted with Neuralink's device in Canada (Toronto Western Hospital, May 20) — the 26th recipient worldwide, and the first with threads inserted through the dura rather than opening it.
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