It's a flutter app (in beta on Google play store currently) that uses OpenAI embeddings with Postgres pg_vector DB hosted in Supabase. Any poor matches go to Dalle3 for generation.
Our charity (I am vice-chair on the board) is hoping to use it as part of our program: https://learningo.org/app/
I am a software developer with an autistic son. Through therapy and assisted communication tools, his ability to communicate has improved considerably from when he was largely non-verbal.
However, it is often a struggle to pass back and forth his iPad to communicate via his AAC app. So I thought I would create a universal mobile app for me to also input his symbols. We use the Speak4Yourself app, but it is only available on iOS. I wanted to create a free, open source alternative that could be used on any mobile device.
The OpenAAC App can work with any AAC symbol set, but you need to generate and upload them manually. I welcome any assistance with this project and hope it is useful to others.
My 16 year old son is autistic and mostly nonverbal. He has been making some great progress on this app lately: https://speakforyourself.org/
That being said, as a parent you really have to work with him on it. It isn't easy to build it into his daily routine. It also helps to have his teachers on board with it. That is why I think he has improved on so much recently.
It is also very expensive at $300 but, in terms of making a difference to his life, it is well worth it.
This is fascinating to me. I am a software developer of many years and a novelist in more recent years. (See https://ronanodriscoll.com/work)
My latest book is a novel about the life of a software developer starting with BASIC on the Commodore 64 in the Eighties up to today. One of the main ideas is how (unlike previous professions), a programmer who only writes Basic can hardly last one generation. The novel is tentatively titled "BASIC Instinct: A Coding Novel". The book is to be published by Moose House press next year and I am looking to generate interest among the developer community.
I hope people who comment on this thread find this interesting. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you do, or have ideas of other online communities to share with. Thank you.