But new technology is helping her communicate again. surgeons implanted tiny sensors in her brain just the size of pills in areas key to producing speech. when she tells her lips, tongue and jaw to make sounds to form words, an algorithm decodes information coming out of her brain, then sends it to a computer screen in sentences. researchers at stanford university in california say the approach could be life changing. she can say any word of 125,000. so it s a large possible set of words. it s notjust a limited vocabulary. and the accuracy was about 23% word error rate, meaning about one in every four words was wrong. and obviously that s something we want to improve moving forward. but it s such a big difference from what s been done in the past that the speed and the generality of it is much better. so i think that it s exciting,