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1 VOICER IN MOBILE PLATFORM TO FACILITATE COMMUNICATION FOR THE DISABLED

2 INTRODUCTION The number of disabled people in Brazil raised from 14,5% to near 24%. Among those, 2,5 million people present difficulties in communication and interpersonal interaction; The importance of Assistive Technology (AT), mainly focused on communication, which is referred as Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC); Voicers; The main goal of this work is to implement and provide a free open source voicer called VoxLaPS, for mobile devices.

3 MOTIVATION Commercially available voicers with a rigid platform, without adjustments capacity, and costly; Smartphones and tablets more financially accessible; Digital and Social Inclusion; NEDETA partnership.

4 METHODOLOGY Implementation in 3 parts: base, screen navigation and customization; Application development with Agile Methodology; Tests with doctors of several specialities after the completion of each one of the application parts.

5 ARCHITECTURE

6 SYNTHESIS The SVOX synthesizer was used, with the voice "Luciana" in Brazilian Portuguese;

7 VOICER PROTOTYPE

8 EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS

9 CONCLUSION According to the parcial results: – Important tool; – Support to medical treatments; – Well-accepted by specialist doctors; – Simplicity and Ease of Use; – Great advance in the AAC field; The tool can also assist in Portuguese teaching; Importance of tests with real patients; Partnership with treatment and rehabilitation centers of people with disabilities, of all ages, and state hospitals.

10 Authors Contact Ana Irene Alves de Oliveira anairene25@gmail.com Nelson Cruz Sampaio Neto dnelsonneto@gmail.com Larissa de Sousa Guimarães larasi2009@gmail.com


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