Gazetalk

Gazetalk

Information about Gazetalk 5 eye communication system

GazeTalk is a predictive text entry system that has a restricted on-screen keyboard with ambiguous layout for severely disabled people. The main reason for using such a keyboard layout is that it enables the use of an eye tracker with a low spatial resolution (e.g., a web-camera based eye tracker).

The goal of the GazeTalk project is to develop an eye-tracking based AAC system that supports several languages, facilitates fast text entry, and is both sufficiently feature-complete to be deployed as the primary AAC tool for users, yet sufficiently flexible and technically advanced to be used for research purposes. The system is designed for several target languages, initially Danish, English, Italian, German and Japanese.

Main features

• type-to-talk
• writing
• email
• web – browser
• Multimedia – player
• PDF – reader
• letter and word prediction, and word completion
• speech output
• can be operated by gaze, headtracking, mouse, joystick, or any other pointing device
• supports step-scanning (new!)
• supports users with low precision in their movements, or trackers with low accuracy
• allows the user to use Dasher inside GazeTalk and to transfer the text written in Dasher back to GazeTalk

GazeTalk 5.0 has been designed and developed by the Eye Gaze Interaction Group at the IT University of Copenhagen and the IT-Lab at the Royal School of Library and Information Science, Copenhagen.

gazetalk v5 screen shot gazetalk v5, linked with Dasher - screen shot

About Gazetalk

GazeTalk short manual

Short manual on data recording in GazeTalk

GazeTalk Videos

• Introduction to GazeTalk and its features: Media:GazeTalk.swf
• Watch the video "Introduction to GazeTalk and its features" (same as above!) in Windows Media File (wmv) format (7.5 MB).
• Watch a YouTube video on Interaction for People with ALS/MND
• Watch another YouTube video on a Talk Given with the Eyes Only by Arne Lykke Larsen
• Watch a YouTube video on ALS-Communication and GazeTalk, where the developer, Dr. John Paulin Hansen explains how GazeTalk works (in Danish, subtitles in English). The video includes short clips of using GazeTalk and a brief interview of John Paulin Hansen. The video was produced by www.synvision.dk, intiative: Birger Bergmann Jeppesen (bigerbj (at) webspeed (dot) dk), for more information, see www.als-communication.dk)

Download Gazetalk

PLEASE NOTICE:
You need to have a recent version of Adobe PDF reader installed in your computer in order to run Gazetalk. This can be downloaded from: http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/
Please read the information about Gazetalk carefully before you download Gazetalk.

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Select the version to download

• GazeTalk v.5.2.2 in English (23 MB)
• GazeTalk v.5.2.2 in Danish (13 MB)
• GazeTalk v.5.2.2 in Italian (16 MB)
• GazeTalk v.5.2.2 in German (15 MB)
• GazeTalk v.5.2.2 full (all languages, 60 MB)

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