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Anil Prabhakar, 04/12/2010 06:33 AM
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- Minimum 3-hr battery backup
- Software that works with a single-click
- Access is through two buttons, which can be programmed either as left-click or left and right clicks
Current Urgent Problems¶
- Need espeak and wxpythons package for the Angstrom distribution
- Need a minimal ubuntu distribution (defined package list)
- with a kernel that recognizes keyboard input on GPIO
- scripts to ground two GPIO pins
- Need to understand amixer, and independently control two audio channels
Open Problems¶
- Incorporate prediction into Hope (see e.g. Dasher)
- Local language version of Hope
- Need to finalize TTS, many possible solutions
- Male voice exists. Need female voice compiled for flite using festivox http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/flite/doc/flite_toc.html
- flite_hts_engine has only female voice
- espeak needs Indian languages
- Improvements to I-Draw
- Mouse-like interface by dividing up the screen into sections and zooming
- Software to teach mathematics
- Scroll type access to other programs like audio/video players, openoffice, etc