XpressAble vs Malachi Speaks

XpressAble is an AI-powered communication assistant designed to help children with speech and communication challenges find their words naturally and confidently. HOW IT WORKS When someone asks your child a question, simply tap the Listen button. XpressAble records the question, transcribes it instantly, and generates a warm, age-appropriate response your child can use — spoken aloud through their headphones. It's a gentle nudge, not a replacement for their voice. FEATURES - AI-Powered Responses — generates natural, first-person responses your child can use in real conversations - Listens Naturally — uses OpenAI Whisper for fast, accurate speech recognition - Spoken Aloud — responses delivered through headphones, including bone-conduction headphones like Shokz OpenRun - Personalised Profile — tailored to your child's name, age, interests and communication style - Multi-Language — supports English, Spanish, French and Hindi - Short and Long Responses — choose between quick one-sentence replies or warmer two-sentence responses - Feedback Loop — rate responses and suggest better ones so the AI improves over time - Chat History — review all past exchanges DESIGNED WITH CARE XpressAble was created by a parent who understands the daily challenges children with communication difficulties face. Every feature is built with sensitivity, privacy and the child's confidence in mind. No account required. No ads. No personal data collected. PRIVACY XpressAble does not collect names, email addresses or any personally identifiable information. Your child's profile is stored only on your device and never shared. Anonymous conversation exchanges are saved to help improve AI responses over time. For families, speech therapists, teachers and caregivers supporting children with autism, AAC needs, apraxia, selective mutism or any communication challenge. Download XpressAble to help a child or someone with speech impediment communicate. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://xpressable.app/privacy.html

Malachi Speaks gives a voice to people who don't use speech. Tap a picture to say a word. Chain pictures into a sentence and speak it all at once. Or type on a keyboard that speaks. Three ways in, so the app fits the person rather than the other way round — and keeps fitting as they grow. It is completely free. No subscription, no paid tier, no ads, and no account to create. Nothing you set up leaves the device. WHY THIS EXISTS I built this for my brother Malachi, who is nonverbal and autistic. Every feature is here because he needed it that week, not because a roadmap said so. Most capable AAC apps cost $200–300, which asks a family to choose between capable and affordable. This is my attempt at neither. THE BOARD • Tap a tile to speak. Categories keep words findable as the board grows. • Sentence Builder: collect tiles into a strip and speak the whole phrase, with next-word suggestions learned from the words this board actually uses. • Quick Actions row and a Recently Used tab for the words that come up constantly. • Search the board by word when it outgrows one screen. A REAL VOICE, NOT JUST A SYNTHETIC ONE Record a parent saying "Mom", a sibling's name, or any word the built-in voice gets wrong. The recording plays instead of the synthetic voice — on its own and inside a built sentence. Recordings never leave the device. TYPE TO SPEAK For anyone who can spell what they want to say: a keyboard that speaks in the same voice as the board, with saved phrases one tap away and matching phrases surfacing as you type. Put a message on the whole screen in big text for a noisy room or a drive-through window. It can replace the picture board entirely for that profile. PICTURES Search dozens of free symbol libraries at once, or download every ARASAAC picture symbol once — 13,000 of them — and search with no internet at all, in English or Spanish. Use your own photos too. ENGLISH AND SPANISH A Spanish starter board, a Spanish voice, and picture search in Spanish — not an English board to translate by hand. The caregiver screens are translated too, and on a Spanish device the app comes up in Spanish on its own. One device can hold both. FOR CAREGIVERS, THERAPISTS AND TEACHERS • An optional PIN keeps Edit Board and Settings out of everyday use. • Profiles: one device can hold a separate board, voice and usage log for each student, kept entirely apart. • Word usage reports with 7- and 30-day trends, the tiles never tapped, and a CSV export for school paperwork. • Print the board to paper, laid out to match the screen, for a pool or a bath. • Backups, and Open Board Format (.obz) import and export, so your board is not trapped here. PRIVACY There are no accounts, no servers and no analytics. Usage counts and word suggestions are computed on the device from real taps and never sent anywhere. The only network use is optional: searching online symbol libraries, and the one-time symbol download. Picture symbols by ARASAAC (arasaac.org), author Sergio Palao, owned by the Government of Aragón (Spain), licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Suggestions are welcome: hbarnett@malachispeaks.com