AÑO
2015
CATEGORÍA
Aprendizaje y Juego
OBJETIVOS
Reducción de las desigualdades
PAL. CLAVE
SPEECH DISABILITY, app, Empowerment
PAÍS
India
CRÉDITOS
Ajit Narayanan • Ajit Narayanan is the Founder and CEO of Invention Labs. He is a prolific inventor with more than 20 patent applications. An electrical engineer with degrees from IIT Madras, his research interests are embedded systems, signal processing and understanding how the brain perceives language and communication. In 2011, Narayanan was listed in MIT Technology Review, 35 under 35 Innovators.
LINK
http://www.avazapp.com/
AVAZ - Making every voice heard!
A Unique Word Game That Enables Children With Autism To Communicate In Any Language.
Some four million people in India suffer from cerebral palsy and other disabilities that make it difficult or impossible for them to speak. Giving them a voice is the job of Ajit Narayanan's low-cost invention, AVAZ. Even someone with only limited movement control can use AVAZ to construct phrases that are spoken out loud by an artificial voice. AVAZ is a unique app that provides a 'voice' to the non-verbal, allowing them to communicate and express themselves. While working with kids who have trouble speaking, Ajit Narayanan sketched out a way to think about language in pictures, to relate words and concepts in "maps". The idea now powers an app that helps nonverbal people communicate, and the big idea behind it, a language concept called FreeSpeech, has exciting potential. The Vision: "Making Every Voice Heard!" In 2010, AVAZ won the National Award for Empowerment of People with Disabilities from the President of India.