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Head Eye Communication (Various Models)

A modified onscreen keyboard with a yellow background, gray keys with black letters, and white predicted words. There are buttons written underneath for erasing, space bar, speaking, capital, and stop. Below that in heavy black font are the words written in the text box. A modified onscreen keyboard with 4 long white buttons with the EJARIN layout divided amongst them on a yellow background. Below there is a more spread out a key display of one of the button's groups of letters. Black arrows point out the choices made that end with a text box where the word is written. It begins with one of the buttons, to a single letter key, to a predicted word, ending in the text box. Above the box are buttons for Delete all and speak.A modified onscreen keyboard with the text box on top and all buttons/keys for that the user chooses are arranged in columns, the first being the 4 groups of letters, then two columns of one group's keys, followed by word predictions. The last column contains the erase and speak buttons.
Model: 
H Mouse and SHEC
Manufacturer Name: 
Association Idee
Approximate Cost: $0.00

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Product Description: 

Software specially designed for people who need a quick communication tool when they have to control their computer with head, eye, or other movements using an on-screen keyboard. It is intended to produce short communication sentences vocalized by SAPI5 speech synthesis.

H Mouse

Letters in Groups are shown on the screen from which the start of the word is chosen. The groups are to be determined according to the needs of the user: one can choose an alphabetical EJARIN arrangement, or other. It includes a predictive dictionary with an automatic update of the frequencies of the words used.

SHEC (Short Head Eye Communication) 

Builds on the old H mouse program by improving it. Buttons with the groups of letters remain on the screen and are chosen when needed to spell out a word; with word prediction and a choice of layout for the buttons: horizontal or vertical to meet different accessibility requirements; colors and speed can be adjusted as needed.

Main Features: 

SPEC includes these additional features:

  • With the "Settings" menu command, options can be set:
    • The access mode: click or flyover 
    • The 4 groups of characters, chosen in principle according to their frequency of use (“ejarin” arrangement here for the first group) 
    • The color of:
      • the window.
      • the preselection frame.
      • the selection frame.
    • The duration of the delay before clicking. 
    • The speed of reading by the synthesized voice (from -10, very very slow at +10, very very fast).
  • When the settings are changed, a button allows them to be saved, otherwise, they are not.
  • When creating the Groups for the buttons, Groups of letters or signs must have a maximum of 10 characters.
  • The dictionary provided includes approximately 20,000 terms and is easily modifiable.
  • Shortcuts for commonly used expressions or sentences are created by using acronyms or any groups of letters.

Primary Specifications: 

H Mouse includes these specifications:

  • Windows all versions from 98 to 7.

SPEC version includes these specifications:

  • The ZIP file of 11/01/2018 (latest version) contains the two layout formats and their documentation.
  • To install, download the ZIP file, unzip it to a directory, and create the shortcuts.

More Information: 

See Manufacturer's website about H Mouse.

See Manufacturer’s website about SHEC.