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ALS patient creates application for people unable to speak

When he became speechless in mid-2014 due to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), José Afonso Braga started using communication and spelling tables, but the process was very tiring. "For more than a year I tested several communication applications that transform text into speech. After being dissatisfied with all of them, I decided to put my experience in software development into practice and make my own application", he explained.

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