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A curated list of 😎 awesome assistive-technology frameworks to help you develop your AT tool/system

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AACSymbolsWord PredictionSpeech RecognitionSpeech SynthesisHead/Face trackingEyegazeSwitch ScanningHackathonsEmail ListsEmail / News announcementsAT Engineering Organisations

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Email / News announcements

  • AACinfo

    a monthly-ish email which lists new products, technologies and strategies in AAC. Users contribute to the site and Ace centre edit it.

Switch Scanning

  • AAC-ShimScanning on the web

    a simple helper method for helping web apps that want to support being embedded inside an AAC system. Check out the

  • Switch Access for WebpagesScanning on the web

    is a coffeescript that enables switch/keyboard control for navigating a webpage for AAC users. Nice demos. Well implemented.

  • Switch Access to TechnologyReading material

    a comprhensive guide to scanning and the various patterns out there.

  • switchScanJSScanning on the web

    a jQuery based implementation with auto-scanning.

Speech Synthesis

  • Acapela for Electron

    Get acapela voices working on Electron apps.

  • Browser Speech Synthesis

    which browsers support which voices.

  • eSpeak

    compact open source software speech synthesizer for English and other languages, for Linux and Windows

  • Extra TTS

    Used to offer additional speech synthesis engines in cordova apps.

  • festival

    multi-lingual speech synthesis workbench that runs on multiple-platforms offering black box text to speech, as well as an open architecture for research in speech synthesis

  • flite

    small, fast run-time synthesis engine developed at CMU and primarily designed for small embedded machines and/or large servers. Flite is designed as an alternative synthesis engine to Festival for voices built using the FestVox suite of voice building tools.

Email Lists

  • Access Group

    UK based group of Occupational Therapists and Engineeers finding solutions for people to access electronic equipment

  • AssistTech

    UK based list with a number of AT professionals from an Clincial Science/Engineering Background

  • AT-Forum

    The

  • Communication Maters AACForum

    UK Forum for the UK Chapter of ISAAC (International Society of AAC)

Head/Face tracking

  • Cordova-Face

    ARkit based head tracking and basic eye tracking for Cordova platforms. Currently focused on iOS.

  • OpenFace

    an open source facial behavior analysis toolkit. See

Eyegaze

  • EyeTab

    a 3D model-based gaze tracker - designed for Microsoft Surface.

  • GazeLinger

    Node module to listen to eye gaze events from the eye-tracking libraries

  • GazePointer

    SDK which provides an abstraction layer for interacting with a number of eye trackers. The current implementation provides support for Tobii EyeX.

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