Personalized Augmentative and Alternative Communication Device Based on Android System

• Main Authors: Hui-Lin Yu, 游惠琳
• Other Authors: Chao-Min Wu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/82314065841636815728

碩士 === 國立中央大學 === 電機工程學系 === 102 === Communication is an important way for people in exchanging information and sharing opinions between each other. However, personal emotion, social interaction, education, and job are affected by the limited cognitive, sensory and movement ability of people with communication disorder. Therefore, there is a need for them to develop an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) to achieve the purpose of communication. The main purpose of this study is to develop an AAC to provide assistance for patients with various communication disorders. By using the developed device, these patients could improve their ability of self-control and judgment, their relationship with family and people, and increase their dignity and employment opportunity. Based on the platform of Android system, this device could provide functions for editing (addition and arrangement) pictures with different configurations, text-to-speech synthesized (TTS) speech or nature language recording to motivate the communication disorders to communicate with people. Furthermore, studies of comparison between the use of traditional communication book and our smart-mobile device-based AAC were conducted with Speech Therapy team on 6 subjects with communication disorders at Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Tao Yuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare-Sinwu Branch. The results showed that our developed AAC had a better performance with statistical significance on accuracy and spontaneous speech than the communication book.