Team Members: Michael Darling Phillip Garcia Speak-Easy Speech Aid App
Dec 23, 2015
• 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)
• Unbeatable Price -
$199
• 7" screen size
• Amazon behind the
wheel
• Runs Android
• Unlimited cloud
storage
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
Tasks for Following Month
Icon Framework/User Interface
• Further Development of GUI
• Adding Vocabulary
• Organization