Researchers Create Mobile App That Gives Voice to People with Communications
    Challenges 
From: University of Toronto - 04/06/2011
By: Laurie Stephens 

Researchers at the University of Toronto's Technologies for Aging Gracefully
Lab (TAGlab) have developed MyVoice, a mobile application and server system
that gives users with speech impairments the ability to speak by tapping
words and pictures on a screen. "MyVoice will help to increase communication
confidence, participation and independence," says Toronto researcher
Alexandra Carling-Rowland. MyVoice is the first system to incorporate
location-aware vocabulary that suggests useful words and phrases based on the
user's location. "This is an excellent example of how university research
makes a direct and positive impact on the challenges that face people around
the world," says Toronto professor Paul Young. MyVoice got funding from
Google, Android, and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of
Canada, as well as requests to test the technology from institutions,
collaborators, and school boards. "More than 90 percent of people with
communication challenges use primitive communication aids, or no aids at
all," says TAGlab's Alexander Levy. "MyVoice will always be accessible to
anyone with a communication challenge."  

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Links:
TAGlab
http://taglab.utoronto.ca/

Alexandra Carling-Rowland
http://www.hctp.utoronto.ca/PeopleFellowDetails.asp?pRid=74

MyVoice
http://www.myvoiceaac.com