An Android application for people with speech disabilities, a generic and easy to learn communication method for anyone with speech disabilities that forms grammatically correct sentences from a list of pictograms clicked and reads them (text-to-speech). Because of pictograms it's especially good for children on ones who have limited reading abilities.

It is different from most of existing products by being free, by it's grammatically correct natural language generation features (inflection, tenses, using the setting user gender to alter first person sentences1 and more) and by usage of gesture search on mobile phones where keyboard is not reliable because is small screen.

Also, my friends have found it to be a fun toy to learn basics of foreign language :)

The application includes ~5000 icons obtained from arasaac.org, where ~900 are properly categorized, and others are accessible through search. It supports French language well, and there is an early prototype for English too.

Other features include:

• recent phrases and pictogram history (each category lists most used ones on top) accessibility
• for easier identification icons tagged with the 6 SPC colors (actions, names, descriptives etc)
• option to display text in capital letters
• compatibility with both Tablets and mobile phones

Below are the screen-shots on a mobile phone. On tablet everything is bigger and fits more icons.

If you liked the application, you are very welcome to donate. That would allow me to add new features and improvements more quickly:

Requirements: Android 2.3+

• Install the application from Google Play: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.epfl.android.aac_speech
• Install gesture search http://www.google.com/mobile/gesture-search/ or from Google Play: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.apps.gesturesearch

About Languages and Text-to-Speech:

• to use French or English you have to set your phone/tablet language to the one you wish to use (go to your phone Settings)
• make sure you have a text to speech engine installed (go to Settings->Install voice data etc).
  • For higher quality voices you may get the SVOX voices from android market ( https://market.android.com/details?id=com.svox.classic ) for around 3 EUR (include free fully featured two week trial). Note: I'm not affiliated with them, just used and liked their quality.
• English support is a bit experimental

• many of the icons are not correctly part-of-speech tagged (this is hard manual work; we use some simple guesses), so have in mind that the application may not allways give expected results

• improved UI (Mar 2014)

• landscape mode and better tablet support
• hide offensive words by default
• fast scrolling (first letter shown)

just use eclipse and import the the project

This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/ .

Content licence: The application includes 5000+ ARASAAC pictograms limited to non-commercial use (Creative Commons) that must be redistributed under the same licence.

• Author of the pictograms: Sergio Palao
• Origin: ARASAAC
• License: CC (BY-NC-SA)

To report a bug or other problem, submit a ticket at GitHub: https://github.com/vidma/aac-speech-android/issues/new