Scientists in Netherlands have have developed a mind-reading state-of-the-art software, which can scan a brain to decipher the sounds spoken to a person, and even who is saying them.

The researchers found that each speaker and each sound created a distinctive “neural fingerprint” in a listener’s auditory cortex, the brain region that deals with hearing. They then trained the software by using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to track the brain activity of seven people, while they heard three different speakers saying simple vowel sounds. 

Read about this sort of speech-recognition device, which is completely based on the brain activity of the listener (via NewScientist).

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