ChatterBoards AAC vs Weave Chat AAC

The cheapest AAC app compared to others offering the same features. Chatterboards was professionally developed, in collaboration with Speech Therapists and end users, with the aim of providing people in need with an AAC app that doesn't cost hundreds of dollars or require monthly subscriptions. ChatterBoards is an easy to use Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) aid for people of any age who have speech or language difficulties. This can include people with autism, aphasia, apraxia, stroke, downs syndrome, or any other disability that causes the individual to have difficulties in communicating or expressing their needs. Continually updated with new features and enhancements. All suggestions and/or requests are considered. Full feature list: - Create and use vocabulary boards, including multiple paged vocabularies, for forming sentences. - Board levels. Levels provide a way to progressively build up a user's vocabulary. A limited set of words can be displayed at each level, progressively building up the number of words shown until the full board is used. Words/Tiles do not move position between boards, allowing users to remember and learn a number of words at a time without them moving. - Create and use basic phrase boards which associate a basic full phrase/sentence to an individual button, providing quick responses or questions for basic communication needs. - Ability to create and switch between different profiles, each with their own set of boards and settings. Ideal for households with multiple users, or specialists with multiple clients. - All board dimensions supported up to and included 16x16 (rows x columns) per page. - Fully customisable buttons. Change their text, colour (border and background), image and audio playback - Change a buttons image from either your devices photo library, camera, or from over 4000 sample symbols. - Includes over 3500 symbols provided by Mulberry Symbols (https://mulberrysymbols.org/) - Includes over 500 symbols designed by Freepik and distributed by Flaticon. - Save images from the internet, or from your own symbol libraries, into your photo library for use. - Supports text-only and image-only buttons. - Fully customisable button audio. Use the Text to Speech synthesiser or record your own voice(s) using your devices microphone. - Keyboard input mode. Alternatively to using symbols, manually enter desired vocabulary with keyboard input. - Text to Speech supports all iOS packaged languages (over 50 languages/dialects). Includes multiple male and female voices for English. - Change rate, pitch and/or volume of Text to Speech synthesiser. - Set App wide voice/language, rate, pitch and volume default values for the Text to Speech synthesiser. - Fully customisable boards. Change dimensions anytime, add, delete and move buttons as desired. - Copy existing boards to create new permutations - Copy/paste individual tiles - Share boards with other users of ChatterBoards. Use Apple AirDrop, Mail, Message, or any other valid installed application on your device. - The ability to lock controls, e.g. editing. Like a parental control. - Supports both iPhone and iPad Also a number of Arasaac Symbols are included as samples (approx. 20). These pictograms used are property of Aragon Goberment and have been created by Sergio Palao to ARASAAC (http://arasaac.org) which distribute them under Creative Commons License (BY-NC-SA)

Weave Chat AAC is a free, dynamic, and completely customizable AAC app that is available to a variety of devices. There are over 3,500 pre-configured words with a symbol library including more than 65,000 symbols that you can choose from. Weave Chat AAC offers a large variety of verbs (green), pronouns (yellow), questions (purple), nouns (tan/orange), adjectives (blue), and conversational words (pink). All color choices were made based on the Fitzgerald Key and new vocabulary is added weekly. Users can add their own custom images and categories in Settings —> Manage Custom Images. In addition, users can add their own custom phrases that can easily be accessed from their board; to add phrases, go to Settings —> Manage Phrases. Users can select a synthetic voice (dependent on their device settings) from Settings —> Change Voice Settings - here you can select your voice, vocal pitch, and rate of speech. Image and text size can be personalized from Settings —> Change Image & Text Size (select from default - small, medium, and large). Settings —> Configure Image Keyboard allows the user to turn on/off features that allow for the category text to be read aloud (synthetic voice for categories), to keep the user in the category after a image has been selected (stay on category after image selection), and disable the speech output for individual words so that it only reads aloud when the white text screen is touched (synthetic voice disabled for individual words). The AAC board can be modified in Settings —> Manage Board Builder. Here, the user can select from the default board (you must make a copy to edit it - to do this select “Add new keyboard” and then select “Hide Images” for Type of Keyboard); grid position boards (ranging in size from 1x2 - 7x15 rows/columns); and Board Builder (gives you the option to build a board from scratch). All boards are completely editable and all custom images and categories can be used from all boards. Lastly, Manage Pin Configuration allows the user to set a pin over all (or just some) aspects of customization to lock down features as needed. Feature List: - Dynamic, customizable, AAC boards - Large variety of verbs, nouns, and adjectives with additional vocabulary added weekly - Add custom images and custom categories - Create and save phrases - Select a synthetic voice (as available per your device settings) - Copy & Paste AAC picture icon messages via “share” - Create and/or modify AAC boards via 3 options: grid position boards (ranging from 1x2 - 7x15), hide images, and/or create a new board from scratch - “Text” others who have the app using AAC picture icons - Set a passcode to lock down features as needed - Weave Chat AAC currently only has English buttons/images