| 摘要 |
<p>The communication aid (1, figure 1) has an user controlled selection input device 11, such as an eye tracking peripheral or touch sensor, a display 3, one or more processing devices 8, and data storage 9 in which is stored a plurality of phrases 10a each associated with time data representative of when the phrase was last used and/or location data representative of the location of the communication aid when the phrase was last used. The communication aid is used by differently abled users for communication by synthesizing speech using phrases individually selected by the user. The communication aid includes software for weighting individual phrases in the data storage with reference to one or both of the time data and the location data associated with each phrase and ordering the phrases with respect to their weighting values on the display. In this way, the phrases most likely to be selected by the user at a particular time and/or a particular location are made easily accessible to the user by being listed at or near the top of the displayed list of available phrases for selection by the user. The communication aid may be an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) device.</p> |
