Google develops app for people with motor and speech disabilities
The application allows people to use their eyes to choose phrases already elaborated and their mobile phone reproduces them with voice
Google has developed an application so that people with motor and speech disabilities can communicate by looking with the help of their smartphone.
The Look to Speak project is a Google application that allows people to use their eyes to choose phrases already created for their mobile phone to reproduce with voice.
The application is aimed at people with motor and speech disabilities, especially those “who are nonverbal and need help to communicate,” as Richard Cave, a speech and language therapist, explains, who has collaborated in the development of the app.
People just need to look from left to right, or from top to bottom, to select what they want to say from the list of phrases presented to them. It even allows them to customize some phrases and words, so that “they share their true voice”, according to Google’s official blog.
Look to Speak is part of the Start with One project, a series of experiments “that begin by working with a person to do something impressive for them and their community.” The application is available from this Tuesday on both Android and Android One, from version 9.0 of the operating system.
Source: dpa
