Aawaj is a novel communication support application that provides an augmentative communication medium providing text prompts in a lexical configuration. Its accesibility features are coupled with a first of its kind Nepali Text-to-Speech (TTS) model developed employiing transfer learning with the ne_np_female datset of female Nepali speech dataset on top of an English TTS model developed using Tacotron2.
Built on top of a TensorFlowV1 model utilizing Tacotron2, it utilizes a Flask API running on a server's localhost that is tunneled to the Internet using ngrok.
This application is then served on Android, iOS and Web, developed using Flutter.