AAC

h1. Alternative and Augmentative Communication 

This 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

We have developed 

# **Hope** - simple sentence constructor with text to speech for users with early literacy skills and limited mobilty

# **LaunchBox** - open platform to start multiple AAC softwares

# **Kavi** - a picture to speech software for the Android tablet https://www.dropbox.com/s/oe60z72r0rce4p3/KAVIPTS.apk

Other solutions

# **Slate** - from 99and1design

# **Avaz** - from Invention Labs

# **Voca** and **Sanyog** - from IIT-Kharagpur

# **CePaL** - from Sun Teknovations, developed in collaboration with DAIICT

h2. Open Problems

# Incorporate prediction into Hope (see e.g. Dasher)

# Local language version of Hope

# 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