One of the most important scientists of physics is Stephen Hawking. His work in cosmology, in the framework of general relativity, is essential for the model that science has built the universe. Hawking suffers from motor neuron disease related to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) which has worsened their status over the years, until it was almost completely paralyzed and forced to communicate through a voice generating apparatus. He has been married twice and has three children. Today has 73 years.
The interesting thing at the moment for us is that the voice synthesizer system uses to communicate, developed by Intel with the Help the physical itself, is now available free of charge to those interested.
The ACAT ( Assistive Tool Context Aware ) is a predictive system virtual keyboard Swiftkey. The idea is that ACAT Hawking himself to be used by 3 million people who have serious and appropriate motor difficulties, which could facilitate their complicated life.
So, ACAT has a virtual keyboard with a predictive system and also makes voice synthesis. In fact, this system can be edited texts, documents, browsing the web be even, not to mention to check email. The works works with a variety of peripherals such as cameras, various sensors, and so on.
ACAT can now be downloaded for either an end user who seeks to understand and complement the desarroollo. For now the system only works under Windows and is available on GitHub. The source code can be had through the page of Technology Center of Intel Open Source. The code is written in C # and Intel encourages developers to extend the original idea of the software, with the intention of helping people suffering from these diseases
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GitHub Source Code
ACAT
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