Google, along with speech therapist Richard Cave, has developed an experimental Android application designed to provide people with speech problems with a way to communicate.
Look to Speak uses machine learning and eye-reading technology to allow users to use their eyes, looking left, right or up to select from a list of phrases. Their phone broadcasts the phrases vocally. The application also allows processing of a user's phrases.
Some of the phrases include: Hello, thank you, yes and no.
“As mobile Appliances they are everywhere present and quite powerful, with technologies like machine learning, I thought about ways that phones can work alongside assistive technologies. These tools can open up new possibilities," Cave says in one Publication on the Google blog.
Cave believes that Look to Speak could be used as extension of existing mesh technology.
"We do not replace strong auxiliary communications, because they are very functional. Look to Speak is for important soon messages where other ancillary communications cannot provide directly ”.
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