Voice for the voiceless

Speech and spoken words have always played a big role in the individual and collective lives of the people. Autistic is a possible term for a person who can not speak or communicate. Autism is when the person finds it hard to communicate and express themselves. ‘Voice For The Voice less’ is a technology which aims to track every movement of the lips and transform them into voice, which could help communicationally challenged people to speak, and allows them to communicate as the normal human being. This technology makes use of six AG-500 Articulograph sensors which is fixed over the lips of the user. When the user moves his tongue to speak, the distance between the various reference points assigned on the mouth is calculated using those six sensors and feeds it to the software part of the device. The distance is mapped with its equivalent SAMPA code. The SAMPA code is fed as input to a voice generating software which produces the final voice of the ‘communicationally challenged’ person. This technology helps the dumb persons in overcoming their disability.