Assistive Technology for Elderly People with Hearing, Speaking or Memory Loss
Features in ATE List of features – An Birds Eye View - Sound Recognizer for tagging images/data - TTS – Text to Speech - Object recognition - Alarm/Reminder Service - Application availability on all platforms - etc...
Problems in application being available on all platform ? - Low memory - Processing speed - Screen size (can be solved programatically) - Updates to feature like new speech synthesis, etc …
Possible Solutions Solutions to approach the problem Using an application/web page Using phone SDK Using WAMI
Application/Web Page - Web page would be an ideal solution but How ? - Present solution does not exists to transfer sound and files to web server through other platform like phone.
Using SDK's (Android) - SDK available but ran into problem of speech recording. - Emulator does not have recognizer and no device mapping to PC emulator - Google license for Emulator recognizer - Device dependent solution would be developed.
WAMI Toolkit – Solution by MIT Web-Accessible Multimodal Interfaces Open Source – MIT License