# Spoken - Tap to Talk AAC — Natural Voice Text to Speech > AAC app for natural voice text-to-speech communication. (iPhone/iPad app by Spoken Inc..) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/spoken-tap-to-talk-aac/id1034487817 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Spoken Inc.](https://appshunter.io/developer/976821296) - Category: Health & Fitness, Medical - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Rating: 4.30/5 from 156 App Store ratings · 51 written reviews indexed - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 16.6 · 110 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2019-11-28 - Data updated: 2026-07-18 - Monetization: free with in-app purchases - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/spoken-tap-to-talk-aac/id1034487817/reviews.md ## What is Spoken? Never miss out on the conversation again. Spoken is an AAC (augmentative and alternative communication) app designed for teens and adults who have trouble speaking due to non-speaking autism, aphasia, or other speech and language disorders. Simply download the app on a phone or tablet and tap on the screen to build sentences quickly — Spoken speaks them automatically, with a wide variety of natural-sounding voices to choose from. • Speak Naturally With Spoken you're not limited to simple phrases when you talk. It gives you the freedom to express complex emotions and thoughts with an extensive vocabulary. Our large selection of natural-sounding, customizable voices ensures your communication sounds like you — not robotic. • Let Spoken Learn Your Voice Everyone has their own way of talking, and Spoken adapts to yours. Our speech engine learns the way you talk, offering word suggestions that match your style of communication. The more you use the app, the better it gets at providing them. • Start Talking Right Away Spoken is very easy to use. It understands what you want to say, so all you have to do is tap to talk. Quickly build sentences and Spoken will speak them automatically. • Live Life We understand the challenges and isolation that can come from being unable to use your voice. Spoken was designed to empower non-speaking adults to live bigger, more meaningful lives. If you’ve been diagnosed with ALS, apraxia, selective mutism, cerebral palsy, Parkinson’s disease, or lost your ability to speak due to a stroke, Spoken may be right for you too. Download the app on a phone or tablet to see how it helps you communicate. Key Features: • Get Personalized Predictions Spoken learns from your speech patterns, offering increasingly accurate next-word predictions as you use it to speak. A quick survey helps it tailor suggestions based on the people and places you talk about most. • Write, Draw, or Type to Talk Communicate in the way that feels most comfortable. You can type, handwrite, or even draw a picture — like a house or a tree — and Spoken will recognize it, turn it into text, and speak it out loud. • Choose Your Voice Pick from Spoken’s wide selection of lifelike, customizable voices covering a variety of accents and identities. No robotic text-to-speech (TTS)! Easily adjust the speed and pitch of your speech. • Save Phrases Store important phrases in a dedicated, easy-to-navigate menu so you’re prepared to speak at a moment’s notice. • Show Large Display your words at full-screen with large type for easier communication in noisy environments. • Get Attention Quickly grab someone’s attention with a single tap — whether in an emergency or just to signal you’re ready to talk. Spoken’s alert feature is customizable and conveniently placed. • And more! Spoken’s robust feature set makes it one of the most powerful assistive communication apps available. Some of Spoken’s features are only available with Spoken Premium. Upon download, you are automatically enrolled in a complimentary trial of Premium. The core function of AAC — the ability to speak — is completely free. Why Spoken Is the AAC App for You Spoken is a modern alternative to traditional augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices and communication boards. Available on your existing phone or tablet, Spoken integrates seamlessly into your life and you can access it immediately. Plus, its advanced predictive text gives you the freedom to use any words you want, unlike a simple communication board and most dedicated communication devices. Spoken is actively supported and constantly evolving based on user feedback. If you have suggestions for the direction of the app’s development or need help, please reach out to us at help@spokenaac.com! Terms & Conditions: https://spokenaac.com/terms/ ## Key features - Natural sounding customizable voices - Personalized word predictions - Type, write, or draw to communicate - Save frequently used phrases - Full-screen text display - Attention-grabbing alert feature ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | Spoken Premium | $12.99 | per month | | Spoken Premium | $99.99 | per year | | Spoken Subscription - Monthly | $6.49 | per month | | Spoken Premium | $49.99 | per year | **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Spoken Premium - Lifetime | $124.99 | one-time | | Spoken Premium - Lifetime | $249.00 | one-time | ## Recent user reviews (10 of 51) All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/spoken-tap-to-talk-aac/id1034487817/reviews.md ### 1/5 — Native iOS “live speech” feature is more functional *2026-05-20, version 1.9.5* I used this app extensively and all “premium” functionality became paywalled. What little functionality was there is already less functional than the stock iOS live speech functionality. ### 5/5 — Absolute gem *2026-03-11, version 1.9.5* Had a very stressful nonstop screaming week and strained my neck muscles so was given instructions to not talk for atleast 3 days and this app makes it feel like I never stopped love it! ### 2/5 — Gets worse *2025-12-05, version 1.9.5* I can’t talk right now because of medical reasons, so it causes me pain to do so. This app was great at first when I could save phrases that I commonly needed help with from the people around me. But then it wanted me to pay for it and pops up everytime I open the app witch’s makes me slower to reply. I would recommend something better that doesn’t shove adds in your face if you are using it for a reason that I am. ### 5/5 — Life saving *2025-03-22, version 1.8.9* I love this app so much. It’s the best most accessible and free AAC app I have found and I use it often. I like that it’s customizable and you can save your own phrases. If I had to add something to it I would add folders to store separate saved phrases. But this app is awesome !!! ### 4/5 — Pretty good for someone with little communication skills. *2025-02-17, version 1.8.9* I’m young but I have barely any communication skills. This app is good for people who can’t communicate what they want or need in the moment. I’m taking a star off because I feel like it could be better, but it’s pretty decent. ### 1/5 — Investigation. *2025-02-07, version 1.8.9* Hello. My name is Savannah I'm legally blind and became new to the app via a friend named Madaline. I'm reaching out to the developers with some concerns regarding the Spoken app made to help people with blindness and visually impaired uses. I feel that the app was made very poorly and here are some of the concerns that I have. 1. The buttons are not labeled correctly, and there are a lot of graphics in the way to the point of a person being stuck in one place example would be the text field. 2. Please pick up an iphone or any other IOS device and learn how VoiceOver is used via blind people living with blindness. 3. When a person selects any of the female voices, examples would be Rose or any other voices, it goes back to Samantha Default. Can you guys look into this or is this typical to do this type of thing? 4. The last concern I have here is that when a person with blindness uses a braille display via pered to the iphone or ipad, if a person presses the enterkey it repeats the statements like it should, but can the done button be placed to the right instead of being labeled at the far right hand corner? ### 1/5 — Very badly made for blind and visually impaired people *2025-02-07, version 1.8.9* Hello, my name is Madeline, I would like to let you guys know this app is not accessible to voiceover users. Voiceover does not recognize that there is a Settings button in there and there’s so many other things that Blind users cannot do with this app that sided users can. ### 1/5 — Not Intuitive *2024-07-06, version 1.8.8* I will start by saying that I find the idea of paying an ongoing subscription fee in order to access basic communication to repugnant. A one-time cost that pays the developers fairly for their work is perfectly reasonable. The expectation that one can have their voice taken away at any time if they can no longer afford it is not. As for the app itself, about the only positive thing I have to say about it is that the voices are decent. They are smooth and not overly robotic. That said, the speech kept glitching, and the first part of my sentences would get cut off randomly, so only the last half of the sentence could be heard. The lack of organisation for the word prediction renders it functionally useless. I can write, “I want,” and then spend 10 minutes scrolling in search of the thing I want, or I can take two seconds to type the word in myself. If a person has cognitive disabilities such as aphasia, which cause them to forget or otherwise be unable to type what they want to say, to the point that they need to search for the pre-written word, there are AAC apps that provide this feature as a core part of how they function. This app is not going to meet the needs of such people. Additionally, even when I do press a word in the search function, it immediately pulls up the keyboard every time. This blocks my view of all but the top row of searched words, and I almost deleted the app after five seconds due to how annoying it was to have to close the keyboard after every single word that I pressed. The saved phrases function saves some time, but if you have more than five or six phrases saved, it is again going to take you longer to find the phrase in your list than it will to just type out the whole sentence. There is no way of making the phrases visually distinct from one another, such as via the use of pictures or colours. Everything is the same black and white, in the same font, requiring you to read out each phrase separately to find the one you want. A big reason that other AAC apps have variable colour and picture customisation is not only for pre-literate children, it is to make the task of finding the word or phrase you want as quick and efficient as possible. As it stands, this app is an expensive text to speech app with a few fancy but functionally useless bells tacked on. If you want a useful, practical, affordable text-based speech app, I would recommend Speech Assistant instead. ### 5/5 — Amazing for speech aphasia or apraxia *2024-06-06, version 1.8.8* My wife had a brain tumor removed and lost speech temporarily while the brain recovered. She had full comprehension and knew the words to say she just couldn't speak them. She could type on her phone perfectly fine, and this app coupled with a good quality Bluetooth speaker was a godsend. - it gave her a voice. The "poppy" voice is a very nice natural female voice. I have one suggestion. Autocorrect - either as a default or at least as an option to just use the phone's built in autocorrect. The predictive text is awesome, but in the days after the surgery as my wife became more comfortable looking at her phone and typing, we found she could type what she wanted to say faster than selecting words from predictive text (which was awesome at first or for those with difficulty typing). In our situation we also found it much more natural to turn off the setting to speak every word as it's being typed, and instead write out the sentence, then tell the app to speak. However, the lack of auto correct on individually typed words really slowed her down. We all have gotten spoiled by autocorrect so it seems unnatural and difficult to type without it. ### 5/5 — its so cool! *2023-11-30, version 1.8.5* hello! i am a semi-verbal autistic teen. i use this when i go non verbal or dont choose to speak! its very helpful in situations where i cant speak. i love that i can create my own sentences and be able to customize the voice! its also very convenient, i could use it anywhere. im unfortunately undiagnosed but got it confirmed by a physician, so my parents sort of understand my situation when i use this. thank you so much for creating this wonderful app! 🫶🏻 ## Frequently asked questions about Spoken ### What is Spoken and who is it for? Spoken is an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) app designed to help individuals who have difficulty speaking. It is intended for teens and adults with conditions such as non-speaking autism, aphasia, ALS, apraxia, cerebral palsy, Parkinson's disease, or speech loss due to a stroke. ### How does Spoken work? The app allows users to build sentences by tapping on the screen. Once a sentence is constructed, Spoken automatically speaks it aloud using a variety of natural-sounding voices. Users can also type, handwrite, or draw to have their message spoken. ### What are the key features of Spoken? Key features include a wide selection of natural, customizable voices, personalized word predictions that learn from user patterns, the ability to communicate by typing, handwriting, or drawing, saving important phrases, and a full-screen display option for easier reading. ### Is Spoken free to use? The app is free to download and use, but some advanced features are available through Spoken Premium. This indicates a freemium model where core functionality is free, with optional paid upgrades for enhanced capabilities. ### What devices is Spoken compatible with? The app is designed to be downloaded and used on phones or tablets, suggesting compatibility with both Android and iOS operating systems, though specific version requirements are not detailed in the description. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.9.5 — 2025-11-19 • Added Autocorrect Toggle: Choose if you want misspelled words to be corrected while typing • Added Spellcheck Toggle: When turned on, potentially misspelled words will turn reddish-orange • Accessibility Improvements: The app was overhauled for VoiceOver and screen reader users • Performance Enhancements & Bug Fixes: Word predictions load faster and the “try again” screen appears less, plus multiple visual adjustments for a smoother experience ### 1.9.4 — 2025-11-14 • Added Autocorrect Toggle: Choose if you want misspelled words to be corrected while typing • Added Spellcheck Toggle: When turned on, potentially misspelled words will turn reddish-orange • Accessibility Improvements: The app was overhauled for VoiceOver and screen reader users • Performance Enhancements & Bug Fixes: Word predictions load faster and the “try again” screen appears less, plus multiple visual adjustments for a smoother experience ### 1.9.3 — 2025-09-28 • Added a new voice selection menu in settings: Choose voices from other sources like ElevenLabs, Apple Personal Voice, or your device’s built-in voices. • Introduced support for ElevenLabs: In addition to your full ElevenLabs voice library, you can also access instant voice cloning and prompt-based voice design all from within Spoken after you link your account. • Introduced support for Apple Personal Voice: Users on iOS 17 and up can now use their Apple Personal Voice in Spoken, if they’ve made one. • Introduced support for system voices: You can now choose from the default text-to-speech voices built into your device. • Remastered app icon for Liquid Glass: We rebuilt our app icon so users on iOS 26 can fully customize it on their home screen. ### 1.9.2 — 2025-08-27 • Added five voices and new accent options: New voices include Hawthorn, Jessamine, Lilac, Lotus, and Tawari. Lotus introduces an Indian accent, while Tawari debuts a New Zealand accent. • Improved offline voices: Offline voices are now higher-quality on most devices and more closely match their online counterparts. • Introduced incognito mode: There is now a “Teach Spoken How I Talk” toggle. Disabling this puts you into incognito mode, allowing you to discuss sensitive topics without those words appearing in or influencing future suggestions. • Expanded the symbol library: Hundreds of word icons have been added. • Improved icon quality: Icons are now higher resolution and should also load faster. • Added two new settings: Based on user feedback, “Keep Saved Phrases Open” and “Hide Scroll Arrows” have been added as toggles in settings. • Fixed bugs: Various issues have been eliminated for a smoother AAC experience. ### 1.9.1 — 2025-08-21 • Added five voices and new accent options: New voices include Hawthorn, Jessamine, Lilac, Lotus, and Tawari. Lotus introduces an Indian accent, while Tawari debuts a New Zealand accent. • Improved offline voices: Offline voices are now higher-quality on most devices and more closely match their online counterparts. • Introduced incognito mode: There is now a “Teach Spoken How I Talk” toggle. Disabling this puts you into incognito mode, allowing you to discuss sensitive topics without those words appearing in or influencing future suggestions. • Expanded the symbol library: Hundreds of word icons have been added. • Improved icon quality: Icons are now higher resolution and should also load faster. • Added two new settings: Based on user feedback, “Keep Saved Phrases Open” and “Hide Scroll Arrows” have been added as toggles in settings. • Fixed bugs: Various issues have been eliminated for a smoother AAC experience. ## Apps similar to Spoken | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Constant Therapy: Brain+Speech](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/constant-therapy-brain-plus-speech/id575764424) | 4.5 (3,696) | Free | Health & Fitness | | [AAC Cboard APP](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/aac-cboard-app/id6453683048) | 3.4 (10) | Free | Health & Fitness | ## Related topics [tap to talk](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/tap-to-talk) · [tap to talk aac](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/tap-to-talk-aac) · [spoken tap to talk](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/spoken-tap-to-talk) · [nonverbal communicator](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/nonverbal-communicator) · [nonverbal](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/nonverbal) · [vocable](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/vocable) · [chatter boards](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/chatter-boards) · [text to speak communication](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/text-to-speak-communication) · [speakeasy aac](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/speakeasy-aac) · [aac devices for nonverbal autism free](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/aac-devices-for-nonverbal-autism-free) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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