March 20, 2007

Text-to-Speech Tool for Face to Face Conversation

This is a very neat tool, Lightwriter from Spectronics. You may have seen in on the the MTV show, True Life featuring Jeremy, who is living with autism.
The communication device allows people and children with speech impairments, autism, laryngectomies, cerebral palsy and head injuries to interact and communicate with others face-to-face.

The Lightwriter is portable and fairly lightweight. After you turn it on, type your message into keyboard and it will appear on the display, OR can be spoken out loud with DECtalk speech synthesis.

Filed under: Cerebral Palsy Every Day Living, Special Needs Equipment

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