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Anil Prabhakar, 06/30/2013 02:08 AM

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h1. Alternative and Augmentative Communication 
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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
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# Minimum 3-hr battery backup
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# Software that works with a single-click 
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# Access is through two buttons, which can be programmed either as left-click or left and right clicks
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We have developed 
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# **Hope** - simple sentence constructor with text to speech for users with early literacy skills and limited mobilty
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# **LaunchBox** - open platform to start multiple AAC softwares
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# **Kavi** - a picture to speech software for the Android tablet https://www.dropbox.com/s/oe60z72r0rce4p3/KAVIPTS.apk
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Other solutions
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# **Slate** - from 99and1design
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# **Avaz** - from Invention Labs
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# **Voca** and **Sanyog** - from IIT-Kharagpur
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# **CePaL** - from Sun Teknovations, developed in collaboration with DAIICT
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h2. Open Problems
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# Incorporate prediction into Hope (see e.g. Dasher)
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# Local language version of Hope
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# Improvements to I-Draw
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# Mouse-like interface by dividing up the screen into sections and zooming
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# Software to teach mathematics
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# Scroll type access to other programs like audio/video players, openoffice, etc
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