A curated list of 😎 awesome Assistive Technology frameworks and tools to help you develop your AT tool/system. note: this is for tools rather than end products. For those see OpenAssistive
Tools to help you make a better Augmentative & Alternative Communication system
- OpenBoardFormat. Suggested format for open source language layouts/packages for AAC systems. See also the OBF Gem - which works with this.
- OpenLoggingFormat. Suggested format for a logging format for Grid based AAC systems.
- AAC-Shim - a simple helper method for helping web apps that want to support being embedded inside an AAC system. Check out the demos.
APIs and resources to support access to symbols
- Open Symbols. Provides api and web front end to search through all open source symbol sets. Powers coughdrop
- Symboliser API. From Commtap. Adds in synonyms and variants on top of the normal symbol information
APIs and code samples to integrate word prediction into your system
- Asterics-Predictionary. JavaScript dictionary-based word prediction library with self-learning abilities.
- Imagineville Prediction API. Keith Vertanen's prediction API.
- Presage. C++ based prediction engine, with Python bindings available (Python binding doc and for an example see this example)
Tools to aid Speech Recognition
- Python Speech Recgonition - Library for performing speech recognition, with support for several engines and APIs, online and offline.
Tools to aid/do speech synthesis
- eSpeak - compact open source software speech synthesizer for English and other languages, for Linux and Windows
- festival - multi-lingual speech synthesis workbench that runs on multiple-platforms offering black box text to speech, as well as an open architecture for research in speech synthesis
- flite - small, fast run-time synthesis engine developed at CMU and primarily designed for small embedded machines and/or large servers. Flite is designed as an alternative synthesis engine to Festival for voices built using the FestVox suite of voice building tools.
- QtSpeech - a cross-platform library based on Qt to provide common cross-platform API to access and use system TTS (Text-to-Speech) engines on platforms as Windows (SAPI), Mac (SpeechSynthesis) and Linux (Festival).
- Talkify - A javascript text to speech (TTS) library. Originally from and used by https://talkify.net. Uses https://manage.talkify.net/ as a backend.
- Extra TTS - Used to offer additional speech synthesis engines in cordova apps.
- Acapela for Electron - Get acapela voices working on Electron apps.
- ResponsiveVoice - Javascript based TTS - check site for pricing
- Browser Speech Synthesis - which browsers support which voices.
Tools to face tracking
- OpenFace - an open source facial behavior analysis toolkit. See OpenFaceIOS for an iOS version.
- Cordova-Face - ARkit based head tracking and basic eye tracking for Cordova platforms. Currently focused on iOS.
Small and big projects to aid/support eyetracking
- GazeLinger - Node module to listen to eye gaze events from the eye-tracking libraries
- EyeTab - a 3D model-based gaze tracker - designed for Microsoft Surface.
- GazePointer - SDK which provides an abstraction layer for interacting with a number of eye trackers. The current implementation provides support for Tobii EyeX.
Using switches and scanning
- Switch Access to Technology - a comprhensive guide to scanning and the various patterns out there.
- Switch Access for Webpages - is a coffeescript that enables switch/keyboard control for navigating a webpage for AAC users. Nice demos. Well implemented.
- switchScanJS - a jQuery based implementation with auto-scanning.
- AAC-Shim - a simple helper method for helping web apps that want to support being embedded inside an AAC system. Check out the demos.
- ATHack. Boston/MIT based hackathon pairing indviduals with disabilities with hackers
- Hackcessible 2018. Sheffield, UK hackathon.
- AT-Forum - The RESNA (Rehabilitation Engineering Society for North America) forum
- AssistTech - UK based list with a number of AT professionals from an Clincial Science/Engineering Background
- Access Group - UK based group of Occupational Therapists and Engineeers finding solutions for people to access electronic equipment
- Communication Maters AACForum - UK Forum for the UK Chapter of ISAAC (International Society of AAC)
- AACinfo - a monthly-ish email which lists new products, technologies and strategies in AAC. Users contribute to the site and Ace centre edit it.
- Tetra Society of North America - Volunteer engineers across North America assisting people with disabilities
- REMAP - Volunteer engineers across the UK assisting people - similar to Tetra
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I will keep some pull requests open if I'm not sure whether those libraries are awesome, you could vote for them by adding 👍 to them. Pull requests will be merged when their votes reach 20.