Brain-computer interfaces can be used to help individuals regain natural strength in speech-related muscles.

“And um, we're trying to make that easier over time. I think in the beginning days we were trying everything to get it to work and um a lot of it again has to do with this valitional intent to speak. That turns out to be the most critical thing. Peter, one of the things that I thought was really interesting also was we were doing so much um decoding through these tasks that over time, actually a couple months into this, and had reported to us actually the strength of her oral facial muscles, her jaw, the tongue, they were actually getting stronger through this constant therapy, constant rehabilitation.”