• DocumentCode
    548818
  • 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
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    15-18 June 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), 2011 6th Iberian Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Chaves
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1487-0
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5974261