Re: New to List

[William Best <standard7452 gmail com>]

Nico,

Thank you for checking out my videos.  I plan on making another set on Monday to show the software in action with one of the users.

The Grid 2 is very expensive for folks that are disabled, but it is a wonderful solution.  Each one of those "Grids" can be modified on the fly to rearrange characters/settings.  There are multiple keyboard layouts, and even activity specific "Grids" that are designed to execute various task specific actions.  

For example there is a "Internet" Grid that has single buttons to select the address bar (alt + d), back, forward, etc.  There are also verbal communication specific Grids that are designed to allow a non-verbal individual elucidate to others via text-to-speech what they want to say.

My specific goal to start with is to get even just a single "Grid" that is an on-screen keyboard with the addition of mouse controls (like where the numpad would go) that could be actuated by the click of a single, uncommonly used key on the keyboard.  From there, an interface could be made from the guts of a keyboard to create a single switch that presses this key.

I like the idea of changing the layout of the keys, but in the interest of getting something moving, it sounds like Caribou may have some of that switching/scanning functionality buried within it (maybe as a carry over from GOK?).

Either way I want to get something going for the folks with physical/cognitive disabilities and have a huge "test" group of people who would love to help as well.  I have some computer knowledge and have successfully created a switch interface using a keyboard, but I lack the programming skills necessary to get something like this started.

Thanks!

~Will

On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 9:49 AM William Best <standard7452 gmail com> wrote:

Patti,

That sounds very interesting, I hope I can help you in some way with your project.

Thanks!

~Will

On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 7:52 AM Patti Ordóñez <pattiordonez gmail com> wrote:

Hi William,

I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Puerto Rico who is using Simon to build a generic spoken programming language for speech recognition systems for which you can create language specific scenarios. My students and I just submitted a paper to ASSETS on the topic. Peter Grasch at KDE is actually still actively involved with Simon and has been incredibly helpful with our project.  We are very interested in making our project open source so that we can have people contribute to the language and the scenarios simply because spoken languages are developed by communities so we need a programming community to help us develop this one.

On May 30, 2015 3:39 AM, "Nico Rikken" <nico nicorikken eu> wrote:

Dear Jason,

I got interested by your writing and looked up the articles. I guess
these two are the ones you refer to, dating back to 2013:

https://lwn.net/Articles/531937/
About the release of Simon 0.4.0. Unfortunately not much has seemed to
have happend since then, looking at the projects website:
http://simon-listens.org/

https://lwn.net/Articles/560086/
A generic speech recognition article later that year, regarding a proof
of concept by Peter Grasch at Akademy. Much groundwork seems to be
required still. For example building a database for software training,
which Microsoft, Apple, and Google have been crowdsourcing for years
https://lwn.net/Articles/560086/

Kind regards,
Nico Rikken

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