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Samsung Electronics Italia, the company's Italian subsidiary, just came out with a new emoji-based message app called Wemogee that can help aphasic patients. Individuals with aphasia may have difficulties in speaking, listening, reading, and writing, but it does not affect intelligence.

Wemogee focuses on bringing all users together again regardless of their language abilities. The app has two modes, visual and textual, and users can choose which mode they prefer.

Samsung worked with an Italian speech therapist Francesca Polini to translate more than 140 sentence units from text into emoji strings, sequences of emojis that accurately convey the meaning of sentences.

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In visual mode, users send an emoji-based message, and the receiver will get it either as an emoji sequence if they're in visual mode as well, or as a text message if they're in textual mode. On the flip side, those in textual mode can send text messages that show up as emoji for those in visual mode.

Samsung says more than 200,000 people in Italy have aphasia while the National Aphasia Association says more than 2 million Americans are affected. Wemogee digitizes that method, making it faster and more efficient, while also making it easier for non-aphasic people to understand loved ones with language disorders. 

 

Currently the app available with messages in English and Italian and is free to download from the Google Play Store.