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Apple Watch is coming soon and we want to develop ThynkWare Speech for it.![]()
ThynkWare further developed for Apple Watch
Kitten Moments:
Let's get the ball rolling for ThynkWare Speech!
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We have some exciting things we want offer but we want to see more activity.
Let try to get the contribution to $1000 so we can unleash our first great incentive program.
The People Have Spoken...
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Great
News! ThynkWare Speech will be available for both Android and iOS
devices. You will now see in our perks that we now are offering
ThynkWare Speech for the most popular platforms on your smartphone.
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Our Story
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 and Android 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. This capability can be extended to a
wider range of messages and to fully controlling an iPhone or Android
phone.
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Check out some of these videos showing demos of ThynkWare Speech in action:
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What We Need & What You Get
Our goal is to reach $100,000 in funding. 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. We will also be able to create a version for general users to translate thoughts into speech.
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.
Since we are a bootstrapped company funded only by own shoestrings, we really value the contributions to our campaign. We would like to expand ThynkWare and ThynkWare Speech into something great. And we would love to offer jobs to just about everyone if ThynkWare itself becomes huge. After all, ThynkWare can potential go into every gadget and device we use (even at work) and we feel that we are on the verge of changing the way we communicate with devices and work. It will be so easy to just 'thynk' to do our daily activities and we can physically be doing something totally different, like being with our family.
As ThynkWare grows, the funds will allow us, the founders, to work full-time on the effort and push the technology forward even more than we in our limited spare time. We feel that if we have come this far in this short of time, where might we go if we were on it all day.
With enough expansion, ThynkWare will change the global economic landscape by offering tens of thousands of new types of work. Imagine if you had a job at ThynkWare where your title was Thynk-Tweeter as part of ThynkWare's social expansion team! You would be paid to 'thynk' tweet all day long while you did something else. I could even envision an ALS patient or other person doing this job from the comfort of their home. That is only one example. I'm sure you can imagine how you would use the ThynkWare technology to make your job a piece of cake.
And it doesn't end there. There's so many opportunities that ThynkWare can offer that reach beyond the ThynkWare Speech campaign as we help ALS patients. We feel it is right to help those in need first before expanding the ThynkWare technologies to our smartphone, TVs, and all other devices. It will change the way we work and play.
And since ThynkWare is currently a team of two right now, we would love to have enough funds to bring other great minds into our group to make a sizable dent in the universe for the better good of technology and for us. We can't do great things alone, which is why we need your help to get things moving forward.
The funds would go toward getting office space to work and move the company out of our garage. We would be able to offer jobs to more intelligent engineers to join the team and do great things. We would use the funds to go toward development activities and engineer wages to make product even better. We have to buy our engineers equipment so they can do their job. We also have to cover administrative costs to continue running ThynkWare.
We would also use the funds to purchase headsets to use so we can allow ALS patients and others with communication or physical difficulties to test and eventually use ThynkWare Speech. We need development equipment for our new engineers after we are fully incorporated and moving forward with expanding ThynkWare Speech to other devices. Some of the funds are used to purchase and ship all the great rewards and perks we are offering.
We know that the cost for our full vision beyond ThynkWare Speech and expanding ThynkWare would require millions upon millions of dollars to fully realize, but we have decided the focus first is on the ALS patients and those who need the ThynkWare technology most. And we feel that our ultimate goal of $200,000 would do amazing things for us, but or current goal of $100,000 is necessary to get it all started. Please contribute to become part of our mission to bring ThynkWare Speech to where it needs to be.
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Ultimate GoalIdeally, 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.
RewardsAs a 'thank you' we will offer the ThynkWare Speech app to our supporters as part of some of our campaign perks. We will also offer a variety of other perks for your level of support.
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Why ThynkWare Speech?
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.
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ALS patients have a great deal of trouble making others aware of their needs. Lacking fine motor control, they must rely on clumsy manual methods, such as spelling out messages one letter at a time via eye tracking, to communicate basic needs. Skilled carers, whether paid professionals, friends, or family members, are needed to help get even simple messages sent and carried out.
At the same time, modern usage of consumer-grade virtual assistants, such as Siri on the iPhone, Google Now, and Microsoft’s Cortina, has advanced considerably.
Consumers are becoming increasingly interested in, and increasingly able to, use speech recognition and text-to-speech to perform a variety of tasks on the smartphone.
While this technology has generated appeal as an alternative approach to human-to- machine interaction, a growing number of individuals have found these speech recognition systems to be frustrating to use, especially systems that fully require the user to initiate commands through voice only.
ALS patients with speech challenges may find it especially difficult to benefit from these voice assistants. The purpose of the campaign is to begin the process of helping speech recognition systems extend their usability to include ALS patients, by providing alternate navigation methods for initiation of actions and communication through mind-controlled brainwave systems.
Risks & Challenges
While
we offer many levels for supporters, we feel that if we raise funds
over the tipping point, we well be able to obtain many of the necessary
resources, such as test space, development personnel, equipment and
sensors to be able to implement and test
ThynkWare Speech for more patients. The more funds we raise, the more
ALS patients we will be able to personally reach. This effort is really
driven by our supporters.
The biggest risk we have is that people might fail to see the value of the technology and miss the opportunity to make a different in the life of an ALS patient. Not only will ThynkWare Speech be useful for ALS patients, but it will also be useful for anyone wishing to use their thoughts to produce speech. The ThynkWare Speech application will be expanded into a more general system for everyday consumers and customized for use with a variety of individuals.
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ThynkWare Speech is really a first step into a much larger change in the way we interact with our smartphones and provides the foundation for the technology to be applied to other types of devices.
If you feel that you cannot help us with our campaign at this time, we would greatly appreciate it if you use the social media to spread the word about the technology and lead your friends and family back to our campaign. We all know someone out there in our network that would be interested.
So use your Twitter, Facebook and social network prowess to share our campaign to others in your circles.
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