# VOICE-BRIDGE

- **Event:** [AI Engineer World's Fair Hackathon 2026](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/aiewf-hackathon-2026)
- **When:** Jun 27 at 9:00 AM – Jun 28 at 5:00 PM (PDT)
- **Where:** San Francisco, CA
- **Team:** [Sachin Naik](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/sachin-crispai)
- **GitHub:** http://github.com/sachin-crispai/voice-bridge
- **Demo video:** https://youtu.be/gWhJOBuKFZ4
- **Gallery:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/aiewf-hackathon-2026/hackathon/gallery
- **Page:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/aiewf-hackathon-2026/hackathon/gallery/69

Voice Bridge is a real-time, multimodal lip-reading assistive-communication tool for people with ALS. As ALS progressively destroys speech (80–85% of patients lose  
  ▎ intelligible speech) while leaving the mind fully intact, urgent needs — "water," "raise the bed," "I'm choking" — can take minutes to communicate. Today's          
  ▎ alternative, a $15–20k eye-tracker, is fragile to lighting and head angle and is abandoned by 30–50% of users.                                                       
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  ▎ Voice Bridge reads the mouth instead of the gaze — the signal a patient can still produce — and fuses lip movement with blinks and small gestures to recover intent  
  ▎ even when audio fails. Recovered intent is spoken aloud and routed as severity-graded, role-aware alerts (comfort → caregiver, clinical → nurse, emergency → entire  
  ▎ circle of care), and the patient-specific understanding persists across staff turnover so a new nurse inherits what the system already knows.                        
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  ▎ It runs on an ordinary camera and laptop via a capture → VSR → TTS adapter pipeline: a zero-dependency offline default that works today, with hosted lip-reading     
  ▎ (Claude vision) and expressive voice (MiniMax) that activate when keys are provided.                                                                                 
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  ▎ Honest caveat: this is an early assistive-research prototype, not a clinically validated medical device.

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