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I love ASL’s switches. And in particular, the ‘Egg’ Switch (who knew it wasn’t its proper name!). Anyway, I was chatting with Mike in the office today as he wanted it to fit neater in the hand. We are down on Engineers/Masters-of-CAD right now, so I asked GPT to SCAD one. It did a great job.
https://www.asl-inc.com/products/product_listing.php?cat=300_Series https://www.asl-inc.com/products/product_detail.php?prod=210 https://chat.openai.com/share/18c4bd58-4d0b-4674-8d87-35597fbedad4
Mad idea of the day. We have people who have a Speak Unique voice but need to use an iOS device and AAC app that doesn’t support it. Can I use the iOS app on a Mac to train Apple Personal Voice on the Mac using Apple’s own computer vision techniques to read the training text?
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/437910/built-in-ocr-in-macos
If you were to classify and detail “AAC-like” “writing” (yes, its spoken but I’m talking corpora here) how would you define it? Probably different groups of people here but I think you would see a push towards: Short utterances generally 2-5 words long, typo heavy, little grammar.. what else?
"one Silicon Valley investor said to me. “Apple feels more and more like a tech fentanyl dealer that poses as a rehab provider.”"
From this Vanity fair article interviewing James Cameron’s e experience of the Apple Vision product (via Slashdot
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/02/03/1854203/james-cameron-loves-apples-vision-pro-but-will-it-be-addictive https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/02/03/1854203/james-cameron-loves-apples-vision-pro-but-will-it-be-addictive
There is a lot of evidence for many students (mainly dyslexia in research) that autocorrection software is far more efficient than using a wordpredictor1. I’m convinced this is needed more in AAC. Still, in general, for writing support, it makes heaps more sense (Note: predictor software can be super helpf... willwa.de https://willwa.de/2024/02/02/there-is-a.html
Anyone who knows anything about BCI generally 🙄at the neuralink PR output. [The BBC](Elon Musk says Neuralink implanted wireless brain chip https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68137046) found a professional to give a good balanced quote but you can still hear the “sigh” within their comments
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68137046 https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/anne-vanhoestenberghe
Apple Vision Accessibility features https://willwa.de/2024/01/31/apple-vision-accessibility.html
Oooh Bard is getting really good now. I’d say that its as good as GPT 4 for coding tasks for sure (thanks Bard for figuring out my latest SwiftUI issue!)
I’ve always wondered why a toilet door train is so wierly designed. I never thought hard enough that it could have been so hard to design a “lock” (from I hacked a train toilet)
"Modern trains in the UK have disabled toilets with power-operated doors. The older models of these toilets had “open”, ”close” and “lock” buttons on the inside, where you had to press “close”, wait for the door to close, and then press ”lock”. There is no separate “unlock” button; pressing the “open” button on the inside automatically unlocks and opens the door."
"Of course, there is a reason for the separation of the clo... willwa.de https://willwa.de/2024/01/29/ive-always-wondered.html
AAC is at this mad crossroads of computer science, occupational and speech therapy, linguistics, and human-computer interaction ..and more. It’s a world where new ideas - and innovations come and sadly go.
📊 “State of AAC” Survey
Brian from OpenAAC is leading an annual survey to capture a snapshot of our ... willwa.de https://willwa.de/2024/01/26/aac-is-at.html
What do you do with a vast amount of cardboard used to ship some tubes from Germany from Rehadapt? Turn it into a Peppa Pig house. Thanks, Diane!
Built a word segmenter service. We come across many folks who never use a space bar. Instead of hammering home to use the space, why don’t we fix it differently? (spoiler alert: because it’s super hard to do right. LLM’s can do this, but man, you need this running on a device..)
Dear Apple (Accessibility and your super not-so-secret LLM teams..). Can I please have an API to word segment a string with no spaces? I can do it in a quick assistant with OpenAI, but gah! This should be on device
related : stackoverflow link, & Rapid dev in SwiftUI
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77825731/word-segmentation-without-spaces-in-swift#comment137201516_77825731 https://willwa.de/2024/01/12/rapid-development-in.html
Rapid development in swiftUI for niche problems https://willwa.de/2024/01/12/rapid-development-in.html
"a brilliant plan that is too dumb for anyone to reasonably attempt because of the odds against them may well succeed because nobody expects brilliant people to do such stupid hopeless things"
Thomas Cochane was a legend. When you want inspiration in life - read some of Thomas’s wild stories (maybe ditch the explosives..)
"a brilliant plan that is too dumb for anyone to reasonably attempt because of the odds against them may well succeed because nobody expects brilliant people to do such stupid hopeless things"
Thomas Cochane was a legend. When you want inspiration in life - read some of Thomas’s wild stories (maybe ditch the explosives..)
Stephen Hawking's AAC setup in closeup https://willwa.de/2023/11/03/stephen-hawkings-aac.html
Correlating Sounds for a sound switch https://willwa.de/2023/10/26/correlating-sounds-for.html
🚀 Calling All AAC Testers for a new release of our Google Cloud/Azure TTS and Translation tool https://willwa.de/2023/09/02/calling-all-aac.html
