Electronic voice aid interprets for people with impaired speechSteve Lee15/12/2013
Electronic voice aid interprets for people with impaired speech
The newly opened CATCH Centre for Assistive Technonlogy and Connected Healthcare at University or Sheffield has relasd a video on the VIVOCA Voice Input Voice Output Communication Aid assistive technolog device.
The VIVOCA is designed to help people who have difficulty controlling and co-ordinating the muscles used in speech to communicate more clearly and control other devices and environmental controls
"The Vivoca gives people with dysarthria - a motor speech disorder - who may find it difficult to make themselves understood, the ability to use their own voice as an input method.
"The voice recognition software learns to recognise the speech and can then interpret it from banks of options. This could reduce the anxiety of not being understood and give the person more independence."
THe BBC video is incomplete but the full video is available on the CATCH website.