HALO-Vox | Non-Invasive Brain-Computer Interface

Five million people are locked inside their own bodies.

Their minds are intact. Their voices are gone.

The only systems fast enough to give them real conversation cost a million dollars and require brain surgery.

Fewer than a thousand people in history have ever received one.

The Breakthrough

65WPM

matching surgical implants

$1,758

total hardware cost

false outputs across 111 trials

surgery required

For thirty years, researchers approached brain-computer interfaces the same way: decode each letter, one at a time, from neural signals. It was slow, expensive, and required surgical implants.

HALO-Vox takes a different approach. Instead of decoding letters, it resolves intent directly—understanding what you want to say before you say it. This paradigm shift, combined with non-invasive sensors, achieves speeds that were previously impossible without surgery.

How It Works

Three steps to natural speech

Sense

Non-invasive sensors capture neural signals from the motor cortex without surgery or implants.

Resolve

Advanced algorithms interpret intent directly, bypassing the slow process of letter-by-letter decoding.

Speak

Natural speech is generated in real-time, enabling fluid conversation at 65 words per minute.

“A sentence that takes four agonizing minutes on current devices takes eleven seconds on HALO-Vox. That is the difference between being a patient and being a person.”

Open to the World

Built for access, not profit.

Patent Pending

U.S. patent pending (No. 63/984,032), filed by the inventor for the sole purpose of preventing corporate gatekeeping of access. The intellectual property exists to protect access, not restrict it.

Clinical Translation

Currently in collaboration with clinicians to begin trials with patients living with ALS, locked-in syndrome, and severe stroke. The path from lab to bedside is the only metric that matters.

The Paradigm

The bottleneck was never hardware. It was paradigm.

For thirty years, the field of brain-computer interfaces has been chasing the same idea — that to give voice back to people who cannot speak, you have to decode their brain signals one letter at a time, and the only way to go faster is to cut open the skull. Five million people worldwide have been waiting on the other side of that assumption. The systems fast enough to give them real conversation cost over a million dollars and require neurosurgery. Fewer than a thousand people in history have ever received one. HALO-Vox began with a single question: what if the field had been optimizing the wrong variable the entire time? What if the brain does not need to spell — it needs to be understood? The answer is a system that resolves what someone means rather than what they are typing, runs on an $1,800 consumer headset, and matches the speed of surgical implants without ever touching the skull. The bottleneck was never hardware. It was paradigm.

A voice for the five million who have lost theirs.