AAC@IITM¶

Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) is our effort to provide non-verbal individuals the ability to independently express their ideas. The platform being used is the BeagleBoard, revC. The final hardware will have

1. Minimum 3-hr battery backup
2. Software that works with a single-click
3. Access is through two buttons, which can be programmed either as left-click or left and right clicks

Current Urgent Problems¶

1. Need a female voice compiled for flite using festivox http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/flite/doc/flite_toc.html
2. Need a wxpython package for the Angstrom distribution
3. Need a kernel image that can recognize a gpio as an event (mouse-click)
4. Need to understand amixer, and independently control two audio channels

Open Problems¶

1. Incorporate prediction into Hope (see e.g. Dasher)
2. Local language version of Hope
3. Improvements to I-Draw
4. Mouse-like interface by dividing up the screen into sections and zooming
5. Software to teach mathematics
6. Scroll type access to other programs like audio/video players, openoffice, etc