That makes it rather taxing to reconstruct words from visemes alone.
It's based on the idea that, because we have been able to reconstruct words for apple, salmon, oak, beaver, squirrel, hedgehog but not grapes or chestnuts, we can work out where the Indo-European "homeland" might have been.
The auto-corrector is not only reconstructing the words we write, it is redesigning reality itself, engineering life.
In a new paper published in PLoS Biology, researchers present evidence showing that they can track the brain activity of a person listening to spoken words and use it to reconstruct the words.
I asked her, "How did you have any hope in the camp, knowing that each day could be your last?" She smiled briefly and told me a story (I reconstruct her words from memory): "My dear doctor, I believe in God, and he was with me in the camp.
So they developed two different computer programs that could reconstruct the words a patient heard just by analyzing his or her brain activity.
Baxter (2000: 218; following Pulleyblank 1973) attributes the voicing effect to a pre-initial element *ɦ- provisionally reconstructed for words with a cognate with a voiceless initial.
The scientists recorded brain activity as a subject listened to 5-10 minutes of conversation, matched up parts of the brain activity images with parts of the sounds, and could then reconstruct various words the patient heard.
There is some remarkable audio, complete with creaking courtroom furniture, of Mandela's original courtroom statement, thanks to smart new technology and assiduous work at the British Museum, whose staff managed to reconstruct his words from a dilapidated "Dictaphone" tape made of thick plastic that 1960s South African courts customarily used.
