Google presents Brazilian software Disabled – Administrators

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Student Jonathan and the creator of Livox, Carlos Pereira

The world conference Google I / O, held on the 28th, featured the presentation of a Brazilian software used by students with disabilities in speech.

The Livox is a feature that allows these people to communicate via mobile devices where it is installed. The software is based on intelligent algorithms that identify and adjust to different degrees of physical disabilities, cognitive and visual, being able to correct the inaccurate touch in the person’s tablet screen to select an image or application of the word.

The software contains a catalog of 20,000 images that can be used in conjunction with texts and also allows access to cultural activities such as movies, cartoons and music.

A project of the municipal education Recife (PE) will allow students with speech impairment to communicate in the classroom through Livox. By 2016, the project aims to benefit other five thousand students with access to Livox to education and social life.

The innovative character of the project aroused the interest of Google executives, leading a team from the company to Recife to produce a documentary on the Livox.

During the event, a documentary with the story of Jonathan Lins, Pernambuco student of 17 years and the pilot action of the character was displayed.

The story behind the creation of the software is also quite interesting. In 2011, the systems analyst Carlos Pereira decided to create a resource that would overcome the difficulties of communication with his daughter Clara.

The Livox was named best social inclusion of world application of the United Nations (UN) and technological innovation with the greatest impact in 2014 by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

Currently, the app communicates in 25 languages ​​and serves 10,000 users worldwide, between families and care institutions, such as the Association of Parents and Friends of Exceptional (APAE). The tool is also the object of scientific study in the area of ​​head and neck and ICU of the Hospital das Clinicas in Sao Paulo, the largest in Latin America.