# intel/acat

Assistive Context-Aware Toolkit (ACAT)

Repository: https://github.com/intel/acat
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/acat
Language: C#
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2026-04-23T15:51:12+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 65/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 78, release rhythm 28, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4215, "days_push": 132, "days_rel": 482, "gap_med": 85, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3230, forks 613 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:50.112983+00:00)

## What it is
ACAT is an open-source assistive communication platform from Intel Labs, originally developed for Stephen Hawking, that helps people with restricted speech and typing abilities communicate. It provides keyboard simulation, word/sentence prediction, speech synthesis, and configurable input modalities such as switches, cameras, and BCI devices.

## Use cases
- enable communication for users with ALS or limited motor control
- convert switch or camera input into typed text and speech
- predict words and sentences for slow typers
- customize assistive UI panels and scanning keyboards
- text-to-speech with custom pronunciations for assistive users

## When to choose
- you need a configurable AAC platform on Windows with extensible input modalities
- you are a developer extending assistive communication technology
- the user relies on switch, camera, or BCI input instead of a keyboard

## When to avoid
- you need assistive communication on macOS, Linux, or mobile platforms
- you want a turnkey consumer AAC app without configuration effort
- your project is not .NET/Windows based

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: speech-recognition, tts, ui-components, accessibility
- domain: accessibility, healthcare, developer-tools, desktop-applications
- platform: windows, dotnet
- tags: assistive-technology, aac, word-prediction, keyboard-simulation, bci, stephen-hawking, csharp, text-editors, desktop

## Member repositories
- intel/acat (main) score 65

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:50.112983+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:24:39.760093+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/intel/acat (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:50.112983+00:00, sha 394365f88357)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.