I have exactly the same requirement. A blind man, although with
perfectly good dexterity in one of his arms, would love to be able to
play digital music. I've started looking at whether any of the apps
which can control a squeezebox on an ipad or iphone (or Android) can
themselves be controlled
I don't know about Android but on iOS there is no API for the voice
activation (Siri) so Apps can't really support that as of today.
What iOS DOES have is VoiceOver which is a voice output with a changed
(tactile) interface to be usable by blind people.
iPeng for iPhone fully supports this and
It would be possible to control an iDevice via large movements picked up
by the accelerometer - say a 1m left to right sweep to select perhaps,
or an up/down movement to move forward or back and so on. The amount of
movement can be detected and the interface could be 'tuned' according to
the
I have an uncle with cerebral palsy. When he was young, the doctors told
him he wouldn't live to 40. He celebrated his 80th birthday a few years
ago. His mind is still sharp, and he loves music.
Today I was talking to my aunt and uncle about how much he loves music.
They say he has stacks of CDs
I have virtually no experience with this, but I wonder if the XBox 360
and Kinect combination might be made to work for him. I don't own one
but I know it has both voice and gesture control support. Might be too
fussy/fiddly, and I don't even know if there's a good music browsing
interface but
Sounds like fine motor skills are limited?
A switch enabled mp3 player is probably what you need. There are
adapter(s) that interface with (older) iPods or dedicated switch
players.
If a computer is the desired option then you could pair it with a darci
switch box + switches + some morse code
