FalaMarcelao

The FalaMarcelão App consists of an intuitive interface that takes a sentence or word in Brazilian Portuguese and converts it into images of mouths representing the sounds of each phoneme. The app also offers text-to-speech functionality with speed control, allowing users to adjust the pronunciation speed as needed. For this reason, FalaMarcelão is ideal for patients with aphasia or apraxia who have the ability to write words or short sentences. See below:

The FalaMarcelão app is now available on the Microsoft Store. Click here to download.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Project Background
• Mouth Image Database
• Contributing to the Project
• License

Installation

• Clone the repository:

  git clone https://github.com/Mario200212/FalaMarcelao.git

Project Background

• Language Used: C#
• Framework Used: .NET MAUI

Development Notes:

In general, for the development of the application, only two files from this repository were used:

• MainPage.xaml: Used to create the visual interface of the application
• MainPage.xaml.cs: Used for building the entire backend of the application (Text-to-Speech, Text-to-Mouths, ...)

Mouth Image Database

The project's image files are available in the 'Resources/Images' folder. See some examples below:

Contributing to the Project

There are several ways you can contribute to this project:

1. Expanding the App to Other Languages

Mouth Images:

• You can provide photos of mouths representing all the phonemes of a language you know. Please create a folder in the repository named after the language you have chosen and place all the images of the phonemes for that language inside it.
• If photos of the phonemes for a given language already exist, you can use tools like Canva to format the images according to the following pattern:

Programming:

• If you are proficient in C# with the .NET MAUI framework, you can help by implementing the logic to convert Text to Mouths (see MainPage.xaml.cs for reference).
• Note 1: If you are adding support for a language other than Brazilian Portuguese, please fork the initial repository and submit your changes as a new branch. I will merge your implemented language with the existing ones into a single app.
• Note 2: We will always give proper credit for all contributions made by our contributors.

2. Enhancing the Current App

• You can improve the algorithm used for converting Text to Mouths, as well as implement any new features or ideas that you believe would enhance the current app.

Thank you for your interest in contributing to the project!

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.txt file for details.

Summary of the MIT License

The MIT License is a permissive free software license that allows for virtually unrestricted use, copying, modification, merging, publishing, distribution, sublicensing, and selling of the software. The only requirement is that the original copyright notice and the permission notice must be included in all copies or substantial portions of the software.

Disclaimer: The software is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind. The authors are not liable for any claims, damages, or other liabilities arising from the use of the software.

For more details, you can refer to the full text of the license here.