Stephen Hawking is a person that needs no introduction. Eminent cosmologist and theoretical physicist from whom even in the 60s was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, for years to communicate with the outside world uses the Intel system created by ACAT. The company has just made a decision that can change the lives of others suffering from this and other diseases – the software is open and available for free.
ACAT, which Assistive Context-Aware Toolkit is a system that by using, in the case of Hawking, the sensor placed in his cheek and a switch mounted infrared glasses scientist, predicts what he intends to say greatly reducing the time required for the synthesis of the words.
Analyzing the cheek muscle work is of course only one of the many methods which can be resorted system while recognizing and predicting the next word. It is possible, for example, an implementation that uses eye tracking, facial muscles or individual muscle contractions. The main reason for the decision on the release of Intel’s code of ACAT is to continue to develop further ways already by the community. Such an impulse gives you the chance that a particular person would be able to use the system implementation developed specifically for her, thus giving a chance for a better life to thousands of other people who were taken to the same body or face similar disabilities. The Communication Intel on this, read the following:
Our hope is that by opening the code of the configurable platform, developers will continue to expand the system with new user interfaces, sensors, word prediction methods and other functions The. ACAT was created for machines with Windows and is compatible with a variety of sensors, such as infrared switches, camera, buttons and more.
Of course retrieval of information by means of sensors and actuators are only part of the way the ACAT. For the full functionality required engine is able to identify individual letters, combine them into morphemes, and then predict specific words and combine them into notice. An example of such software is Presage, also available for free.
Intel decided to make available tools that – to quote Stephen Hawking – life-changing . In addition to the publication of the program itself, along with its code in the repository GitHub, Intel udostęnił well as documentation that will allow for easier implementation of the system and tailor it to the specific needs of people with disabilities.
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