AAC@IITM » History » Version 9
Version 8 (Anil Prabhakar, 11/02/2010 08:32 AM) → Version 9/10 (Anil Prabhakar, 06/30/2013 02:08 AM)
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** **[[Kavi]]** - a picture to speech software for the Android tablet https://www.dropbox.com/s/oe60z72r0rce4p3/KAVIPTS.apk hardware
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
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** **[[Kavi]]** - a picture to speech software for the Android tablet https://www.dropbox.com/s/oe60z72r0rce4p3/KAVIPTS.apk hardware
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