VoxEase – Communication Aid Web App

Launch the web app: turisc.github.io/voxease

A couple of months ago a family friend had a very serious health issue that left him temporarily unable to speak or move much.

So I put together a web app connected to a game controller, in a way that he could just select phrases from a list to communicate. Luckily this person got better quickly, and this app was no longer needed, but I decided to improve this experiment and publish it as an Open Source project.

So, this is VoxEase. It can be operated with a mouse, a touch screen, a computer keyboard, a game controller using a single hand, or you can set it to scan the list of phrases automatically so you only need to press one button to pick your phrase.

VoxEase only requires a modern browser and once downloaded it works offline. It is free and open source, has no dependencies, and sends absolutely no data to external servers or trackers.

It supports multiple languages and it can also be used by people with sight impairments (it works well with screen readers).

Source code: github.com/TuriSc/voxease

Theater show – La Volata di Calò

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Background animation for the theater show “La Volata di Calò”, for Teatro Stabile di Catania. It’s the adaptation of a novel by G. Savatteri about the life and the dreams of the man who founded the Montante bike factory.
The prologue is set in a legendary market of the shadows imagined by the protagonist when he was still a child, so director Fabio Grossi asked me to aid the narration with my animations.

My video of falling rocks goes viral

Mt. Etna decided to spit tons of volcanic rocks and ashes onto my town. I was there filming the event, and eventually this video went viral. It was reposted on Liveleak, IO9, reddit and several other websites.
Too bad it’s filmed with a toy camera!