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ESMA Assistive Technology & Google Partnership

PROJECT EUPHONIA

Those eligible to record and send in speech samples will receive compensation $300 per 1,500 voice samples (no limit).

Record Your Voice

Our Assistive Technology department is ecstatic to begin a partnership with Google on two projects that aim to change the lives of people with disabilities by developing new and better technology!

If you or someone you know has a voice that is difficult to understand due to a condition (but not just because of an accent), you can help! Please fill out this form to volunteer and record a set of phrases.

The research particularly focuses on how we can train computers and mobile devices to better understand people who have difficulty pronouncing words due to neurologic conditions (e.g., stroke, traumatic brain injuries, cerebral palsy and ALS).

Last week Easterseals MA's Assistive Technology department met at the Google offices in Cambridge, MA, and explored Project Euphonia and their Call System project. Google is trying to teach computers how to recognize dysarthric speech and they are looking for more people who can provide them with speech samples for Project Euphonia through ESMA.

For instance, a google employee with dysarthic speech who also has a Russian accent has recorded thousands of messages, and now can speak into his phone which “translates” his speech into text and casts it to a screen that his communication partners can see.

CALL SYSTEM PROJECT

The Call System Google is developing is a switch that can be triggered with the lightest of touches to activate call systems . For example, a user with ALS could activate barely moving his or her thumb.

It has been utilized at Leonard Florence Center for Living , and Google hopes to expand the availability of this type of technology, which is where Easterseals Massachusetts comes in!

A glimpse of Google's offices in Cambridge, MA.