Alternative and Augmentative Communication for All – AAC4All

The AAC4All project aims at improving Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) systems. AAC concerns a wide range of disabilities combining an inability to conduct oral communication with severe motor difficulties in using digital devices. The project brings together a multidisciplinary team of experts in NLP, HMI, occupational therapy and speech therapy around the implementation of a modular AAC platform. The platform will respect an open architecture and allow any actor to integrate or retrieve software components that meet a given need. Learnability of AAC systems will also leverage the definition of dedicated serious games. AAC4All aims additionally to provide a reference framework for the evaluation of AAC in terms of occupational therapy. Finally, the project targets significant advances on : a) on-the-fly spelling correction, b) pictographic translation; c) relation between linguistic prediction and the typing device.