check http://neuroscience-landscape.com/

this is list of software, hardware, and other material on neuroscience

UCSF is big part of BRAIN Initiative lead by Allen Institute, many of the tools and their work is collected in Open Neuroscience Foundation

i think eddie chang's paper on voice synthesizing is published, i forget if it was nature or neuron. it's prob on pubmed but i'm too lazy/sleepy to pull it. doris tsao and a number of collaborators have a few nice papers out w ML applications to single unit/LFP recordings