Quick Speak
About this project
The team created a predictive conversation engine that learns and becomes personalized as it is used. The app uses a microphone to listen to the conversation and provides the user with appropriate responses. The user can then push one choice, and the answer is spoken through a bluetooth speaker. The app can be accessed on a phone, tablet, or google glass. Choices can be customized and the engine will learn your response and learn which you say most often to become easier to use and more personalized, it becomes your individual voice. Because we are using smart technology it will also allow access to text/phone/internet and other apps, allowing the user to be included in everyday conversations, and keep up on social media and messaging with their social peer group.
The challenge
Imagine your friends are all texting, but you don't know what they are saying. Imagine a friend asks you how your day was, and you don't have a way to express yourself. The need knowers biggest frustrations come from the inability to share her thoughts and ideas as quickly as they come. Current AAC devices require searching multiple screens and pressing multiple choices to speak even simple sentences. This process is difficult to learn and time consuming to use. The team would like to create an app that is intuitive to your situation, listens to the conversation and allows the user to speak in entire sentences with the push of a button (or the tap of a watch, or the nod of the head). Additionally, current devices do not offer the ability to connect to smart technology, so users cannot make phone calls, text, use apps or utilize other smartphone technology.
Who it helps
The need knower is nonverbal and has limited mobility. She is very social and engaged.
Project details
- Stage: Concept
- Built by the Bay Area community, Bay Area, United States of America
- Category: Daily Living
- 6 downloads
The build files for Quick Speak are free to download from this page - open source, shared by TOM: Tikkun Olam Makers.
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