Financier: UNICEF
Project duration: 2019 - 2020
Project goal is to improve the availability and address the need of affordable Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) solutions, UNICEF ECAR is piloting an open source AAC called “Cboard” in 3 countries in the Europe and Central Asia region. Cboard is a web application for children and adults with speech and language impairments, facilitating communication with pictures and text-to-speech feature. To implement the Cboard, in Serbia, Croatia and Montenegro, it needs a text-to-speech application to be installed on the android tablet as the standard Google text-to-speech or Samsung text-to-speech engine is not available for the Serbian, Croatian, and Montenegrin languages. Through the activities of this project, a text-to-speech application was developed for all three languages for Android OS compatible for integration with UNICEF-supported applications