awesome-assistivetech
github.com/openassistive/awesome-assistivetech ↗A curated list of 😎 awesome assistive-technology frameworks to help you develop your AT tool/system
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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)
Word Prediction
Hackathons
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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