SayLah

A free program designed to help non-verbal individuals find a voice. Project page - https://projects.better.sg/SayLah-communication-for-the-nonverbal-283d29898fad485a8ac95394100ac106

The application was originally created by Merkie, and you can find this application here: https://github.com/Merkie/freespeech.

Everything listed below is paraphrased from Merkie, the person with the original idea behind the tool! Watch a YouTube Video of the original intent of this application here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owr2aIHRJA4

Why Was Freespeech Created?

Freespeech was created by Archer Calder in response to the few programs out there for non-verbal people that all cost upwards of $200 to $300. As a sibling of a non-verbal sister, he understood that these heavy costs can be big investments for families, especially ones that are not in the financial position to spend that kind of money. And he hopes Freespeech can get to the point where it can be a viable alternative to the other expensive apps out there. My goal is to help people communicate without a hefty cost.

Many people requested to donate to the project. He would first recommend you donate to the Make A Wish charity as they gave his Sister, Della, a wish. If you feel inclined to donate to him and the development of this project, feel free to support him on ko-fi. He is trying to buy himself a new computer as he is currently developing off his parent's laptop. Any money left over after expenses will go to Make A Wish.

What can run this program and what is its purpose?

This can currently only be ran in web browsers such as Google Chrome and Firefox however it will, in the future, be supported as an IOS and Android application. This program was created to help non-verbal people and allows the use of a series of buttons to produce sentences that allow them to communicate easily. It also provides a base that the users can modify to help them communicate with ease.

What is the plan for the future?

The program is always evolving and so the future development ideas can be found in the issues section under the issues enhancement tab.

How do I use the program?

The web site for the program is up and useable, you can find it here. All the changes merged with the deploy branch are available there.

Running the app locally

The app uses Vue, so running it involves the following steps. Your device needs to have Node.js, npm (and optionally, yarn) installed to run the app.

1. cd vueapp/: Navigate to the app directory
2. yarn or npm install: Install the packages required for the app.
3. yarn serve or npm run serve: Run the app locally!

Contributing

You can find our source code on Github.

Please read our Contributing guide for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us. When contributing, email us at chaitanyabaranwal@better.sg or sids@better.sg.

Please make sure to follow our Code Of Conduct in all manners when contributing to this project.

Authors

Original Freespeech app

• Archer Calder - Initial work/Core Team Member/Creator - Merkie

  

• Bailey Townsend - Core Team Member/Developer/Collaborator - GitHub Linkedin

  

Porting over Freespeech to Saylah

• Siddhant Shrivastava - GitHub
• Chaitanya Baranwal - GitHub
• Prannaya Gupta - GitHub
• Ong Hong Rui - GitHub

Community

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.