Stephen Hawking’s voice is Open Source: Intel software lands on GitHub – t3n Magazine

The software that enables the famous physicist Stephen Hawking to communicate with its environment , now available to all interested developers and users. Intel has released the software under an open source license to GitHub.

Open Source: Intel released the software that Stephen Hawking helps when speaking

The famous physicist Stephen Hawking suffers from ALS and is confined to a wheelchair since 1968. Since he lost the mid-eighties his ability to speak, a voice computer helps him express himself. In 2014, Intel introduced an entirely him neuüberarbeitetes system available that be in the older model to replace. The software is called “assistive context-aware toolkit” (ACAT) and allows Hawking to speak but also the use of the computer. So he can purely by the movement of his facial muscles surf the Web or edit Word documents.

ACAT: This software helps Stephen Hawking through the day. (Source: Intel)

Now Intel has the software released under the free Apache license on GitHub. So developers should be supported, which would also like to develop programs for people with ALS or similar restrictions. ACAT is a Windows software and was written in C # in Visual Studio 2012. About GitHub you can download the source code and you the Windows Installer by ACAT. According to this report, the installation should be pretty easy. Previously you should of course but a look at the ACAT User Guide throw.

Intel hopes for expansion of ACAT by the open source community

Intel hopes that the ACAT supporting the open source community is expanded in various function. . So the system could soon help people with many different disabilities in everyday life

In this context, you should also take a look at the article “Recognize that break, avoid: barriers on the Internet” from the magazine t3n .. No. 2 throw

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