A Neuralink participant told his wife "I love you" using thought
Neuralink shared a demonstration on September 16, 2026 in which a participant in its VOICE study thinks the words he wants to say and the implant decodes the neural signals and speaks them aloud through a reconstructed voice. The clip shows him telling his wife that he loves her. VOICE is Neuralink's speech restoration trial, separate from its cursor control studies, and is aimed at people with severe speech impairment from conditions such as ALS. Neuralink describes the device as an investigational brain-computer interface, and it is not approved for general use.