The Power to Speak by ThynkWare Speech

AlbuquerqueThynkWare Speech

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About This Project

 


ThynkWare Speech application


ThynkWare Speech - A communication solution for ALS and Locked-in Syndrome patients.


ThynkWare (www.thynkware.com) is seeking to help amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients initiate text and email messages using their thoughts. The project is intended to
assist a very wide range of patients, including those who are partly or nearly completely “locked in” socially due to communication difficulties.


This project will allow patients to use a newly invented iPhone app to send a message. The patient will use thought commands to initiate the app, and then to select a message from a customizable menu of messages. The chosen message will be read aloud by
the phone, and can also be sent as text or email to a designated recipient. Beyond the grant period, the capability can be extended to a wider range of messages and to fully controlling an iPhone or Android phone.


 


Duane Cash - Founder of ThynkWare - wearing brainwave headset


ThynkWare Speech is based upon a patent-pending technology invented by ThynkWare's founder, Duane Cash, which is for a mind-controlled virtual assistant on a smartphone device. This technology allows user to control their devices in a variety of ways using
only the power of thought.


ThynkWare provides the interface layer between your brain and your devices. With ThynkWare, anyone can use their thoughts to control their smartphones, tablets, home, office, tv, robots, and even clothing. ThynkWare creates a new way of computing enabling
us to "thynk" to interact with devices, social networks, and other people. We feel that the ThynkWare interface is the next step in computing following the invention of the mouse and personal computer.


 


Duane Cash with MindGear prototype controlling Siri




In 2013, I created a mind-controlled virtual assistant on a smartphone device. The video of this patent pending technology made a small buzz on the Internet and media. Next, I created Dawn: A new kind of virtual assistant. Using a custom API for Siri, Dawn
focused more on conversation and learning concepts on-the-fly.


 


Floyd Smith (ThynkWare Co-Founder) with brainwave headset




Now with ThynkWare Speech, we want to use the same core technology to start some good by helping ALS patients and others with communication difficulties gain the capability of using thought to communicate with family, caregivers and friends. We would to build
upon our successes and make a solution that translates thought into speech. That's important to us and we hope you feel the same way.


 

Use Of Funds

$100,000 Tipping Point Goal

Tipping Point goal



The tipping point goal for ThynkWare Speech is $100,000. If we raise this amount we will be able obtain the necessary resources and personnel support to fully develop the product and get it into the hands of ALS patients who need it.



The funds will support the costs for developing and replicating ThynkWare Speech for more individuals and possible provide enough leverage to allow us to create additional products for general consumers.


The funds will be used to obtain testing space, development personnel, research equipment, and headsets for the patients that will test ThynkWare Speech. The funds will also allow us to expand out reach and speed of development so we can push ThynkWare Speech
beyond ALS and Locked-in Syndrome patients to others like those missing limbs and the blind. There are many more people who would benefit from ThynkWare Speech.



Ultimate Goal



Ideally, we would like to raise more than $200,000 for this effort. We feel that ALS patients have needed this type of communication solution for quite some time. Now the technology is bringing us closer than ever. ThynkWare Speech can provide new capabilities
for ALS patients and with even more funding, ThynkWare will be able to push the technology beyond helping ALS by making solutions that reach more devices such as wearables, smart homes, TVs and more. Your funding will allow you to be part of a revolution of
ideas that will change the way we all interact with our devices.

$200,000 Stretch Goal


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