Speak for Yourself

This update adds the ability to customize the search feature indicator. You can now: * change the border color * animate the border * change the shape and width of the indicator and  * dim the background words This update is largely to help individuals with visual challenges and contrasting background colors, but as we know, improving accessibility for one group helps us all.

We’re so excited for the additions to this update and think you will be too! * Diversity character selection - you can select one of the Smarty Symbols (c) characters, and the app will use that character when there’s an option. * Personal voices can be used to Speak for Yourself! On devices running iOS 17 and above, you can create and use a personal voice in the app. * Page sharing! You can now share and import the beautiful custom vocabulary pages you’ve created. Go to Vocabulary and scroll down to “import a page” and “share a page.”

This version updates the symbols to high definition Smarty Symbols(R)! First, no vocabulary has been harmed in the creation of this update. Every word in the app is still in the exact same place as it has been since the app was released in 2011. If you’ve moved and added words, your individual vocabulary will also be in the exact same place. BUT the symbols are changing. As much as possible, we’ve chosen the high definition equivalent to the existing symbols. If that wasn’t possible, we chose the new Smarty Symbol for the word. We know a lot of people are sensitive to change, and we haven’t taken that lightly. We’ve updated the symbols for 3 main reasons. 1. Diversity Barbara Fernandes and the wonderful Smarty Symbols team have created characters to allow for more diverse skin tones and ages. It’s long overdue for us to include this new symbol library. 2. High definition quality The new symbols are crisp and clear and also allow for better quality screen shots and printed materials. These new symbols will also match the symbol library on the Smarty Symbol website. So, if you’re looking to create support materials, you can search by the category or file name of the SfY symbol to find them on the Smarty Symbols website. 3. Larger symbol library This update increases the symbol library from 11,000 to 31,000 symbols. You can still take pictures and choose photos from your camera roll, but now there are an additional 20,000 symbols to choose from as well.

1. Words in a message now may be edited. To edit a message, long-press or double-tap a word to display a cursor to the right of the word, then add or delete words. After speaking an utterance, the cursor is positioned automatically at the end of the utterance and hidden. 2. Separate play/pause and stop buttons replace the single play/pause button to make it easier to control speech. 3. Added a button to hide/show the navigation bar on late-model iPhones that have notches. The previous swipe gestures work as before. 4. "Squished" is automatically renamed to "squirted" when fetching all existing vocabularies and when restoring the factory vocabulary.This was a weird typo that we fixed. 5. When the “I” core word is linked to a second page, selecting “i” on the second page results in displaying an upper case “I” in the message. 6. Documents such as the Programming Guide and AACtion Plan now display in the familiar QuickLook interface that displays thumbnails for navigation, allows searching, markup, printing, and saving a copy of the document outside of SfY. 7. Restored proper behavior of Manual Whisper Mode. 8. Editing history is now available! Vocabulary added or deleted is now logged to History. 9. When exporting History data, History data entries that don’t have an associated word, such as turning Babble on or off, should leave the first column empty, but did not. This has been fixed. 10. SfY 4.2 requires iOS 13.0 or above. 11. Various bug fixes and minor improvements.

Fixes a bug in 4.0 where adding a word to the message and then quickly tapping delete can result in a crash.

Speak for Yourself 4.0 adds message window segmentation! *This update gives you the ability to “play” and “pause” the message window, highlight words as they’re spoken, and select an individual word from the message window. *Improved appearance of message window: ~Words are lowercase where expected ~First letter in the message is capitalized ~The symbol size now adapts when the text size is changed * Appearance improvements in Edit. Edit now supports dynamic type as set in the Accessibility section of the Settings app. *The search feature guide now blinks for a long time rather than quickly timing out. *Various bug fixes, including crash on launch, and performance improvements.

* This release is intended solely to fix a crash on launch that’s affecting devices managed through a device management system. There is no reason to install it if you aren’t experiencing a crash on launch (as soon as you try to open the app).

* Unlocked FAMILY and FEEL pages to make them editable * Dark mode is now supported within the Speak for Yourself app * User interface and appearance improvements * Bug fixes