Category Archives: Assistve Technology

Symbols for AAC using SVG and a RESTful web API

Posted on March 29, 2015 by Steve

A good few years ago I hooked up with Garry Paxton who needed some development support for a charity website.  He had created straight-street.com to provide Speech and Language Therapists access to a new and freely available symbol set. Symbols … Continue reading →

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Cloud4All – providing automatic personalisation of access technologies

Posted on February 6, 2015 by Steve

The Cloud4All project has just undertaken it’s important penultimate review with EC, something of a milestone for any FP7 project. This is a good time to take stock and see where the project is at. This especially true for Clou4All … Continue reading →

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Free international SAPI voices from Microsoft

Posted on February 28, 2014 by Steve

Either this is a well kept secret of I’ve been asleep, but I’ve only just found Microsoft provide easy access to the SAPI voices provided with other language versions of Windows. The following is the case in my Windows 8.1 Pro … Continue reading →

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SS12 EU Student assistive technology competition a success at AAATE conference

Posted on September 21, 2013 by Steve

[Updated 23/09/2013 – added posters, code and photograph] The second SS12 EU assistive technology (AT) competition held as part of the  AAATE 2013 conference culminated in the announcement of the winning student team as part of the closing session. As with the previous SS12 EU during ICCHP, … Continue reading →

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ATIS4ALL – discovering and discussing Assistive Technology

Posted on July 19, 2013 by Steve

Assistive Technology (AT, see video at end of post) is a peculiar subject for most of us. Often, by using AT to make adaptations to our physical environment or the technology we already use we can dramatically improve the quality of … Continue reading →

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