The communication software through which astrophysicist Stephen Hawking is able to communicate is now freely available. The Intel company behind this interface named ACAT (Assistive Context-Aware Toolkit) has decided to make available for download this software that could help millions of people with disabilities.
Achieved disease neurodegenerative Charcot, Stephen Hawking saw his body paralyzed gradually. First the legs and arms, breathing muscles and swallowing, and speech. With this software, only available on a Windows version, astrophysicist can express robotically with only muscles still moving his face.
Indeed, the movements or contractions of her cheeks are captured by an infrared system fixed on his glasses and transcribed on the tablet from his wheelchair into text. “Our open source platform developed by Intel Labs will help sick or disabled people have full access to the capabilities and applications of their computers, through very limited interfaces adapted to their condition “ said the leadership of Intel stating that it would” users to communicate easily with others thanks to the keyboard simulation, word prediction and speech synthesis. “
According to the company, people with severe disabilities and finding themselves unable to can finally communicate “perform a series of tasks such as editing, management of documents, web browsing and email access” .
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