Investment in assistive

technologies.

Here, I will tell you how to help people with

disabilities to simplify their activities at least a
little
 Elevator for the disabled.
To the manager.
I offer to purchase advanced devices
and the latest technologies in our
college. This will make it easier to
teach people with disabilities or
disabilities. The first offer to buy an
elevator is a technology that will
help you easily climb to the 4th
floor without any special actions.
 Talkitt.
The innovative mobile application
(known back in 2016) was developed by
the Israeli company Voiceitt. It is
intended for people with speech and
language disorders for communication
purposes. The program translates
incomprehensible pronunciation into
colloquial correct speech, so that you
can delve into the thoughts and words of
the interlocutor.
It is noteworthy that the program works
in any language: the machine learning
algorithm first analyzes the user's
speech (after being asked to say a few
standard phrases), creates a personal
dictionary for him, and then begins to
recognize the words that it outputs as an
audio track or text (similar to Siri).
Unfortunately, Talkitt is still in beta
testing.
 Open Sesame.
We are talking about a mobile application that
allows you to switch to full control of your
smartphone with voice and gestures. By
reading minimal movements of the limbs or
head through the front-facing camera, it
recognizes the face and words of its owner,
helping to move the cursor, open and use
programs.
This development is from Israel, invented six
years ago. Oded Ben Dov (game developer)
and Gior Livni (paralyzed electrical engineer)
are the creators of this technology for the
disabled. They worked on complex software,
using Google's Nexus 5 as the hardware
platform. Interestingly, the original idea and
principle of operation were taken from the
gaming industry, where gesture analysis is
very popular in games on consoles. The
gadget runs on Android and records activity at
a distance of 40-60 cm.
 Be My Eyes.
The non-commercial application with the literal
name "Be My Eyes" is aimed at people with
vision problems and is designed to save them
from everyday chores through live video
communication. The program works on the
principle of online communication: you need to
specify whether you are a volunteer or are
looking for an assistant yourself. After that,
register.
Requests from visually impaired people come in
different ways: from the detection of road signs
to hints on the selection of goods on the shelves.
Volunteers receive video calls from users from
different countries and act in accordance with
the request of the interlocutor. Several tens of
thousands of people are registered in the Be My
Eyes project. The program runs on different
platforms and was made by a Danish software
development studio – Robocat. The creator of
this technology for the visually impaired, Hans
Jorgen Wiberg, is himself a person with similar
difficulties.
 Finger Reader.
This is a handy tool for reading text
from scientists at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. The device
is designed for two purposes: on the
one hand, to help visually impaired
people perceive text information in
paper or electronic books, and on the
other – to translate the language.
The unusual gadget is connected to
computers and smartphones and is
worn on the finger, and it was made
on a 3D printer. You need to swipe
your finger over the body of the text,
line by line, and then the miniature
camera will scan the data and
instantly voice everything it finds.
With the help of vibrations, Finger
Reader can notify visually impaired
readers that they are at the beginning
of a line or should go to the next
line.
Goodbye teacher, good mood.