In Your Own Voice: Personal Augmentative and Alternative Communication Voices for Minimally Verbal Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

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1. Resource Description

   Many children with autism who have limited verbal abilities use Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices to help them communicate with others. Often, these devices produce speech output. Necessarily, the voice of such a system does not resemble in any way the voice of the child who uses the system. The software from this project is for children who have at least some speech capability, such as saying a few isolated words. The technology performs a voice transplant of the child's natural voice onto the AAC device, so that the device's voice will sound like the child.

2. Used by

   Center for Spoken Language Understanding

3. Website(s)

   http://www.nlmfoundation.org/grants/communication.htm

4. Website(s)

   http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/education/schools/school-of-medicine/departments/basic-science-departments/biomedical-engineering/center-for-spoken-language-understanding/in-your-own-voice-personal-aug.cfm?WT_rank=1

5. Developed by

   Klabbers-Judd, Esther, Ph.D.

6. Developed by

   Kain, Alexander, Ph.D.

7. Developed by

   van Santen, Jan P.H., Ph.D.

8. Developed by

   Black, Lois M., Ph.D.

9. Software license

   Open source software license