Echoes of Empowerment: Giving Voice to the Voiceless

Echoes of Empowerment: Giving Voice to the Voiceless

🌟 Unlocking Voices and Changing Lives: Pic-A-Talk, an innovative Filipino-made app, is revolutionizing communication for non-verbal children with special needs by harnessing the power of images and text-to-speech technology. Founded by Ms. Uma Roa, this groundbreaking...
Beacon Demo Day 2023: Showcasing the Power of Entrepreneurship

Beacon Demo Day 2023: Showcasing the Power of Entrepreneurship

Uma Roa had the privilege to pitch during the networking session and introduced Pic-A-Talk, a picture exchange communication system in a mobile application. The system consists of images of words that are easily identifiable by any user, which helps children with...
Pic-A-Talk at Iligan City’s First Ever Campus Devcon

Pic-A-Talk at Iligan City’s First Ever Campus Devcon

Last November 7, 2022, Pic-A-Talk was invited both as a participant and a speaker in MSU-IIT’s first Campus DEVCON, an event made possible with the collaboration between Iligan City ICT Council, Devcon CD, and MSU-IIT’s own CCS Executive Council. Unable to...
Young STAR Feature

Young STAR Feature

Two award-winning apps that empower people—one for PWDs, and another for children with special needs