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Assistive Technology for Elderly People with Hearing, Speaking or Memory Loss

Assistive Technology for Elderly People with Hearing, Speaking or Memory Loss

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Assistive Technology for Elderly People with Hearing, Speaking or

Memory Loss

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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...

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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 …

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Possible Solutions

Solutions to approach the problem Using an application/web page Using phone SDK Using WAMI

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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.

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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.

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WAMI Toolkit – Solution by MITWeb-Accessible Multimodal Interfaces

Open Source – MIT License