Title :
Communication between people with motion and speech disabilities
Author :
Silva, Fernando ; Pereira, Francisco
Author_Institution :
Inst. Super. de Eng. de Coimbra, Inst. Politec. de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Abstract :
Some persons can´t speak and can´t use sign language because they have motion and speech disabilities. This paper describes an aided augmentative and alternative communication computational system to enhance the ability of these disabled persons to communicate. The user can create sentences just by moving his head to select symbols displayed in a monitor. Then, the prototype validates the sentences and sends them to a given receptor, which might be a therapist or another disabled user in another location.
Keywords :
handicapped aids; speech processing; user interfaces; alternative communication computational system; augmentative communication computational system; motion disabled people; picture based symbol description; sentence generation; software program; speech disabled people; text-to-speech conversion; Grammar; Head; Prototypes; Servers; Speech; Syntactics; Tin; augmentative communication; disability; language; lexical rules; picture symbol;
Conference_Titel :
Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), 2011 6th Iberian Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chaves
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1487-0