Neurodegenerative diseases, brain injury, and other conditions rob our loved ones of their innate ability to communicate. It's been over a hundred years since electrodes first recorded brain signals, yet a non-invasive neural speech prosthesis is still out of reach with today's hardware. Meanwhile, software has caught up, but the data is barely there. September Labs is bridging the gap between thoughts and speech by following three core practices: building boards, collecting signals, decoding thoughts.

Hardware
We're building affordable, research-grade, biosignal recording hardware at 5-10x lower cost than similar systems. This helps scale data collection efforts across hundreds and even thousands of participants.

Data
Brain foundation models need large amounts of data to generalize across patients. Our work focuses on gathering speech production data to train models geared towards decoding thoughts - data in extremely short supply.

Software
Preprocessing and denoising collected data is a crucial part of our workflow. Because our systems are non-invasive software does a lot of heavy lifting to separate true signals from noise.

The data collected on September Labs boards is used to train EEG foundation models. These are then run on an intermediary device - like a phone or tablet - or in the cloud, to decode attempted speech in real time. This is output in the form of text or synthetic speech, providing a voice to patients who have lost the ability to communicate.

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