• by smolPotat on 6/14/2020, 8:21:43 PM

    This is an open source application that helps people who can't speak communicate with others. I posted the Android github, but it's also an iOS project. Along with development help, we also need help translating this app.

    website: http://vocable.app/ iOS Github: https://github.com/willowtreeapps/vocable-ios

  • by capableweb on 6/15/2020, 10:49:23 AM

    Really cool, great work!

    Only weird thing I feel is the video. For being an application all about empowering people to be able to "say" stuff without speaking, it doesn't have a lot of demonstration of it actually being used for communicating with people. Most of the time there is music in the background, otherwise it's just a short section of the video with what results you can expect from the app, or people who can actually speak saying something.

  • by Keverw on 6/15/2020, 12:00:57 AM

    Interesting, remember seeing a thing on 60 minutes one day randomly flipping channels about non verbal with autism using iPad's to talk. A cool use of tech! Open source is cool too, I know some of these apps are 100 to a few hundred dollars.

    Wasn't expecting it could be controlled with head movements. Kinda reminds me that once I was thinking It would be cool if some way tech could read your mind but I don't know if that'd work well and probably could be used for bad. haha. I'm a horrible speller. Then also I feel I can think out code faster than I can type it - so that'd be cool if you could just stare at a screen, click your mouse somewhere and just think code and it writes it.

  • by acrefoot on 6/15/2020, 2:05:38 AM

    The Vimeo video says that spinal cord injury affects ~300,000 people in the US, and also says that's 2% of the population. Is that percentage referring to something else, or is that a typo?

  • by szaroubi on 6/14/2020, 11:55:22 PM

    Have you had experience with non verbal autistic children ? Would you say this app is geared toward that persona (sorry to reduce it a persona)? if not, would you know what is missing ?