Arsh Shah Dilbagi, a 16 year old from Panipat has developed a device named ‘Talk’ that allows breath to be converted into speech.
‘Talk’ is Dilbagi’s official entry for the Google Global Science Fair (age group 15 and 16) and is an affordable alternative to the current Augmentative and Alternative Communication Devices in use.
Known popularly as Robo, Dilbagi is a 12th grade student at the DAV Public School in Panipat and is a well-known figure in the science circles in India. In 2012, he was honoured by the then President of India, Pratibha Patil, for developing a working prototype of an Autonomous UGV. He won the Indian Robot Olypiad in 2010 at the National Level and in 2011 at the Refional Level. He was also a winner of the First Lego League in 2011 at the Regional Level.
About 1.4% people in the world, which amounts to a hundred million people, suffer from developmental disabilities, according to Dilbagi. With an aspiration to change the world, Dilbagi developed ‘Talk’ as a resourceful and innovative version to the current AAC devices, which uses a still-function muscle of the users or the track movement of their eyes to get signal for communication.
‘Talk’ enables people with developmental disabilities like Locked-In Syndrome, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and mutes, who collectively outnumber the entire population of Germany, to communicate in normal form of speech using breath.
Users have to exhale in distinguishable short and long breaths nasally. These are then converted into morse code, which in turn is synthesised using a voice.
Arsh Shah Dilbagi, a 16 year old from Panipat has developed a device named ‘Talk’ that allows breath to be converted into speech.
‘Talk’ is Dilbagi’s official entry for the Google Global Science Fair (age group 15 and 16) and is an affordable alternative to the current Augmentative and Alternative Communication Devices in use.
Known popularly as Robo, Dilbagi is a 12th grade student at the DAV Public School in Panipat and is a well-known figure in the science circles in India. In 2012, he was honoured by the then President of India, Pratibha Patil, for developing a working prototype of an Autonomous UGV. He won the Indian Robot Olypiad in 2010 at the National Level and in 2011 at the Refional Level. He was also a winner of the First Lego League in 2011 at the Regional Level.
About 1.4% people in the world, which amounts to a hundred million people, suffer from developmental disabilities, according to Dilbagi. With an aspiration to change the world, Dilbagi developed ‘Talk’ as a resourceful and innovative version to the current AAC devices, which uses a still-function muscle of the users or the track movement of their eyes to get signal for communication.
‘Talk’ enables people with developmental disabilities like Locked-In Syndrome, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and mutes, who collectively outnumber the entire population of Germany, to communicate in normal form of speech using breath.
Users have to exhale in distinguishable short and long breaths nasally. These are then converted into morse code, which in turn is synthesised using a voice.