DIRECTED PERSONAL COMMUNICATION FOR SPEECH GENERATING DEVICES

摘要

Speech generating devices, communication systems, and methods for communicating using the devices and systems are disclosed herein. In certain examples, the speech generating device includes a display device and an input device configured to generate a communication to be displayed on the display device, wherein the speech generating device is configured to allow a user to select between playing the generated communication through a speaker and transmitting the generated communication via a communication network to a computing device separate from the speech generating device. In certain examples, the computing device may be designated with other computing devices of other conversation partners within a conversation group.

主权项

1. A speech generating device comprising:
a display device; and an input device configured to generate a communication to be displayed on the display device, wherein the speech generating device is configured to allow a user to select between playing the generated communication through a speaker and transmitting the generated communication via a communication network to a computing device separate from the speech generating device, wherein the speech generating device is configured to categorize the computing device and a conversation partner associated with the computing device into a conversation group, wherein the speech generating device is configured to define a level of sharing for the conversation group for a real-time update of the generated communication, and wherein the level of sharing is a character-by-character update, word-by-word update, sentence-by-sentence update, block-by-block update, or a social cue proxy update.