Researchers have developed an app that could help people speak the language of eyes\u2014literally.<\/p>\n
The smartphone app that researchers working with Microsoft have developed can interpret eye gestures in real time, decode these gestures into predicted utterances, and facilitate communication.<\/p>\n
Called GazeSpeak, the app would help people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a condition resulting in individuals gradually losing their strength and the ability to speak, eat or move.<\/p>\n
As part of the Enable team at Microsoft Research, the scientists developed GazeSpeak to help people with ALS who can move their eyes but cannot speak.<\/p>\n
ALS also causes other motor impairments that affect voluntary muscle movement.<\/p>\n
According to the researchers, current eye-tracking input systems for people with ALS or other motor impairments are expensive, not robust under sunlight, and require frequent re-calibration and substantial, relatively immobile setups.<\/p>\n
Eye-gaze transfer (e-tran) boards, a low-tech alternative, are challenging to master and offer slow communication rates.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo mitigate the drawbacks of these two status quo approaches, we created GazeSpeak, an eye gesture communication system that runs on a smartphone, and is designed to be low-cost, robust, portable, and easy-to-learn, with a higher communication bandwidth than an e-tran board,\u201d the researchers wrote in the abstract of a paper scheduled to be presented in May at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Colorado, US.<\/p>\n
\u201cGazeSpeak can interpret eye gestures in real time, decode these gestures into predicted utterances, and facilitate communication, with different user interfaces for speakers and interpreters,\u201d the researchers said.<\/p>\n
GazeSpeak uses artificial intelligence to convert eye movements into speech, and runs on the listener\u2019s device so that he\/she can understand what is being said in real time, New Scientist reported.<\/p>\n
The app will be available on the Apple App Store before the conference in May, according to the report.<\/p>\n
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