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Awesome Assitivetech Awesome

A curated list of 😎 awesome Assistive Technology frameworks and tools to help you develop your AT tool/system. note: this is for tools rather than end products. For those see OpenAssistive


AAC

Tools to help you make a better Augmentative & Alternative Communication system

  • OpenBoardFormat. Suggested format for open source language layouts/packages for AAC systems. See also the OBF Gem - which works with this.
  • OpenLoggingFormat. Suggested format for a logging format for Grid based AAC systems.
  • AAC-Shim - a simple helper method for helping web apps that want to support being embedded inside an AAC system. Check out the demos.

Symbols

APIs and resources to support access to symbols

  • Open Symbols. Provides api and web front end to search through all open source symbol sets. Powers coughdrop
  • Symboliser API. From Commtap. Adds in synonyms and variants on top of the normal symbol information

Word Prediction

APIs and code samples to integrate word prediction into your system

Speech Recognition

Tools to aid Speech Recognition

  • Python Speech Recgonition - Library for performing speech recognition, with support for several engines and APIs, online and offline.

Speech Synthesis

Tools to aid/do speech synthesis

  • eSpeak - compact open source software speech synthesizer for English and other languages, for Linux and Windows
  • 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.
  • QtSpeech - a cross-platform library based on Qt to provide common cross-platform API to access and use system TTS (Text-to-Speech) engines on platforms as Windows (SAPI), Mac (SpeechSynthesis) and Linux (Festival).
  • Talkify - A javascript text to speech (TTS) library. Originally from and used by https://talkify.net. Uses https://manage.talkify.net/ as a backend.
  • Extra TTS - Used to offer additional speech synthesis engines in cordova apps.
  • Acapela for Electron - Get acapela voices working on Electron apps.
  • ResponsiveVoice - Javascript based TTS - check site for pricing
  • Browser Speech Synthesis - which browsers support which voices.

Head/Face tracking

Tools to face tracking

  • OpenFace - an open source facial behavior analysis toolkit. See OpenFaceIOS for an iOS version.
  • Cordova-Face - ARkit based head tracking and basic eye tracking for Cordova platforms. Currently focused on iOS.

Eyegaze

Small and big projects to aid/support eyetracking

  • GazeLinger - Node module to listen to eye gaze events from the eye-tracking libraries
  • EyeTab - a 3D model-based gaze tracker - designed for Microsoft Surface.
  • GazePointer - SDK which provides an abstraction layer for interacting with a number of eye trackers. The current implementation provides support for Tobii EyeX.

Switch Scanning

Using switches and scanning

Reading material

Scanning on the web

  • Switch Access for Webpages - is a coffeescript that enables switch/keyboard control for navigating a webpage for AAC users. Nice demos. Well implemented.
  • switchScanJS - a jQuery based implementation with auto-scanning.
  • AAC-Shim - a simple helper method for helping web apps that want to support being embedded inside an AAC system. Check out the demos.

Support

Hackathons

  • ATHack. Boston/MIT based hackathon pairing indviduals with disabilities with hackers
  • Hackcessible 2018. Sheffield, UK hackathon.

Email Lists

  • AT-Forum - The RESNA (Rehabilitation Engineering Society for North America) forum
  • AssistTech - UK based list with a number of AT professionals from an Clincial Science/Engineering Background
  • Access Group - UK based group of Occupational Therapists and Engineeers finding solutions for people to access electronic equipment
  • Communication Maters AACForum - UK Forum for the UK Chapter of ISAAC (International Society of AAC)

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.

AT Engineering Organisations

  • Tetra Society of North America - Volunteer engineers across North America assisting people with disabilities
  • REMAP - Volunteer engineers across the UK assisting people - similar to Tetra

Contributing

Your contributions are always welcome! Please take a look at the contribution guidelines first.

I will keep some pull requests open if I'm not sure whether those libraries are awesome, you could vote for them by adding πŸ‘ to them. Pull requests will be merged when their votes reach 20.

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