The app, GazeSpeak, allows listeners to understand what the person suffering from ALS is trying to say by analyzing their eye movement to help the listener as well as the patient communicate.
Microsoft has created an app for patients suffering from ALS, GazeSpeak, to help them communicate with their eyes.
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig’s disease is a nervous system disease that attacks nerve cells, called neurons, in your brain and spinal cord. Sometimes, eyes become their only tool to communicate. GazeSpeak, running on listener’s device, predicts what the person is trying to say by registering their eye movement. It divides alphabets into a grid of four boxes, visible to the ALS sufferer via a sticker on the back of the device, and registers response corresponding to them looking up, left, right, and down.
