It is hard to keep up to date! Over the last two months we have been exploring the changes that have been happening in the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) image generation and learning that there are ways of creating AI generated AAC symbols without having to train large data sets, but as always there are other challenges to consider, such as how complex does a prompt or text description have to be to generate an acceptable AAC symbol!
Explore our AI generated symbol sets and collections, Watch out for specific topics and very different styles of symbols in the coming months. Individual open licenced symbols can be downloaded and used as a starting point for generating new AI images for a particular look and feel to support ideas around localisation, personalisation and customisation.
In the UK Spring has come and nearly gone and we have been busy working on all things AI behind the scenes. This background work is all about laying the foundations for an update of Symbol Creator AI, that allows us to create symbols in the style of some of our open licenced symbol sets.
Working with Sensory App House has provided us with the chance to create a wide range of topic categories as part of our experimenting with various different AI models. The results for realistic and representational looking images as symbols has been surprisingly good for some subjects.
The ATIA 2025 conference offers the Global Symbols team a chance to catch up with the latest advancements in Assistive Technology as well as Augmentative and Alternative Communication research and practices. We also hope to share the advances we have been making in the use of Generative Artificial Intelligence technologies for the creation of pictographic.