Editorial standards
How we verify, how we label what stage a product is really at, and how we correct mistakes.
How we label stages
Silent-speech news mixes lab papers, demo videos, waitlists and real products. Readers lose money and trust when those blur together, so every product or project we mention gets exactly one stage label.
Published or presented by a lab. Nothing to buy or reserve.
A working demo exists, usually from a company. No public way to pay for one.
You can pay a deposit or full price now. The product has not shipped yet.
Finished units are being delivered to paying customers.
We also use three extra labels when they fit better: Waitlist (sign up only, no payment), Clinical trial (tested in people under a medical protocol, not for sale) and Acquired (bought by another company, plans may have changed). A product moves to Shipping only when we can confirm finished units are reaching paying customers, not when a company says it will ship soon.
Prices and regions
Prices, deposits and shipping regions come from the maker's own checkout, terms or official announcement. We copy them with the date we checked. If a preorder is open only in one country, we say so in the headline area or the first lines of the story, not at the bottom.
How we verify
- Primary sources first. Company terms and checkout pages, peer-reviewed papers, university news offices, regulator filings and statements from named people.
- Claims stay claims. Speed, accuracy and word error rate figures from a company or a demo video are reported as company claims until an independent test or a peer-reviewed paper backs them.
- Conflicts are shown. When reports disagree on a price, date or figure, we say which source we used and why.
- Every story lists its sources at the end, with links, so you can check us.
How we use AI
We use AI tools to help research, translate and draft. A human editor checks every fact against its source and approves every story before it is published. AI tools never decide a stage label, a price or a verdict on a product.
Independence
Mouthing.ai does not accept payment for coverage, and companies do not review stories before publication. A separate project, mouthing.io, may sell silent-speech hardware and accessories. Store listings never decide what we cover or how we label it. If a story covers a product sold on mouthing.io, the story says so.
Corrections
When we get something wrong, we fix it and add a dated correction note at the end of the story that says what changed. Minor wording edits that do not change meaning are not noted. To report an error, write to the newsroom address on our About page with the link and what you believe is wrong.
Updates
Stories about fast-moving products show an "Updated" date. Tracker entries show the date we last checked them. We recheck every Preorder and Waitlist entry at least once a month.