034 | Communicating in Your Own Voice: Inside The AAC Technology Changing Lives

We're excited to bring you a Tobii Dynavox special Equal Inspired episode. Tobii Dynavox is a global, full-service provider of groundbreaking communication solutions for people with disabilities. Tobii Dynavox's Nora Winkler & Riley Hesbacher take you inside the AAC (augmentative and alternative communication) technology, giving a voice to people with cerebral palsy, ALS, autism and spinal cord injuries and the unexpected career journeys that led them here. They share with us: What "Power to Be You" really means when communication is how you learn, work, connect and express who you are How your eyes alone can control an entire computer, and speak for you The path from a single tap or glance to a voice coming out of a device What it takes to design for users who each have different needs Deeply moving user stories that show the real impact of this work The "8 hours, then I switch off" rule for balance when your work feels like a calling What it's really like to start over in a new country, from the Swedish winter to building friendships from scratch What connects the people who thrive at Tobii Dynavox Riley Hesbacher is a computational linguist and Software Engineer for Language Systems at Tobii Dynavox:   / riley-hesbacher-b7a88a253   Nora Winkler is a Product Area Lead at Tobii Dynavox, working with speech-generating devices that empower people to communicate in their own way:   / nora-laura-winkler-86126333   Follow Tobii Dynavox's Important work: https://www.tobiidynavox.com/ LinkedIn:   / tobiidynavox   YouTube:    / tobiidynavox   ‪@womenintechse‬ Conference Tobii Dynavox Talk - Using eyes to talk: how assistive communication creates inclusivity | Griet Vanhee, Linnea Selling':    • Using eyes to talk: how assistive communic...