Hi Daniele,
Does he speak Mandarin or Cantonese?  Communicator has Mandarin TTS but I am not sure they have Cantonese TTS yet.  Also I believe he needs to know how to use Pinyin for producing characters.  That is how a client of mine has used her eye tracking system.  This involves typing phonetically and the characters pop up in prediction.

Sincerely,

Amy Roman, MS, CCC-SLP
Augmentative Communication Specialist

Forbes Norris ALS Research and Treatment Center
&  ALSA Golden West AAC Evaluation Center and Lending Library

1100 Van Ness Ave.
6th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94109

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On Mon, 6/3/19, Daniele Raneri <xxxxxx@alsinfo.org> wrote:

 Subject: Looking for suggestions!
 To: "xxxxxx@alsa.simplelists.com" <xxxxxx@alsa.simplelists.com>
 Date: Monday, June 3, 2019, 11:35 AM

 Hi everyone!
   
 Looking for suggestions..
 I am working with a pALS who spends most of his day on his
 desktop computer. He is nonverbal, but he has been using the
 text-to-speech feature on Google translate to communicate.
 Chinese is his first language and
  he prefers to communicate in Chinese. At this time, he
 still has some function in his left hand, so he is currently
 using his mouse to type with the on-screen keyboard to
 communicate.
   
 He is definitely moving in
 the direction of eye gaze.. I brought him a loaner TD I-15,
 but he prefers to remain on his personal computer, so he now
 has a loaner PC Eye Mini. My concern is that once he can no
 longer use his hand to type,
  it is going to be very laborious for him to type with his
 eyes using the onscreen keyboard with Google translate. I am
 hoping that I can find an option for him that most devices
 and TTS apps have for creating ‘quick phrases’
 with personalized categories and
  phrases to make communication quicker. Does anyone know
 of a text-to-speech program or app (available on Windows
 PCs) that allows Chinese-speaking users to create
 personalized categories with phrases?
   
 Thank you!
 Daniele
   
 Daniéle
  Raneri, M.A. CCC-SLP | Assistive Technology Specialist,
 Maryland
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