Team Members:

Michael Darling

Phillip Garcia

Speak-Easy Speech Aid App

• Director of ECE Undergraduate Program 

• Founder and Special Advisor to the President of ISTEC (Ibero-American Science and Technology Education Consortium )

• Executive Vice-president and Chief Development Officer of Gridline Communications Holdings, Inc

Sponsor: Dr. Ramiro Jordan

• Speech/Language Pathologist

• President and CEO of BMSI

(Bilingual Multicultural Services Inc)

Mentor: Rosario Roman

Speech Aid App

Tablet computer based application to assist users with speech disabilities in their everyday lives.

Goals• Displays and speak inputted sentences

• Adapts to English or Spanish

• Include an interface that will allow the user to browse word icons

• Enable the customer to customize application's vocabulary

• Changes voices (male/female/child)

Augmentative Devices – Global Design Student Contest (GSDC)

Operating Environments

Which Is Better?

Software

•Schooling•Documentation•Examples•Established Language

• Unbeatable Price -

$199

• 7" screen size

• Amazon behind the

wheel

• Runs Android

• Unlimited cloud

storage

iPad Competition

Senior Design Project?

• Software Development

• Make a functional app

• Integrate with hardware

• Our own design

• Flexibility

• Creativity

• Imagination

• Viable product

• HELP OTHERS!!

Challenges/Concerns

• Innovative Interface

• Text-to-Speech (TTS)

• Performance

• Customization

• Testing

• Additional Features

• Working in a Team

Roles/ResponsibilitiesPhillip

•Research Available Platforms

• Implement Additional Features

• Implement Test Framework

Michael

•Research Market

• Implement Typing Interface

• Implement Icon Interface

• Implement Spanish Interface

28-Sep 1-Oct20-Oct 25-Oct 1-Nov

1-Dec

1-Feb

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Year

Tasks for Following Month

Icon Framework/User Interface

• Further Development of GUI

• Adding Vocabulary

• Organization

Questions ?