Talk Node vs MyBella

TalkNode is a communication board for people who cannot speak: after a stroke, with aphasia, ALS or dementia, autistic children, and patients who cannot speak for a while in hospital. Tap a picture card and the phone says the sentence out loud. TalkNode speaks 10 languages: English, Türkçe, Deutsch, Español, Français, العربية, Русский, Português, Italiano and Nederlands. The buttons, the ready-made cards and the voice change together. READY FROM THE FIRST MINUTE • Setup starts by letting you hear the voice, so you know it works before you rely on it. • Three starting boards: an adult at home, a child, a hospital stay. • 62 ready-made cards for needs, feelings, health, quick answers and social phrases. EVERY DAY • Large cards that are easy to hit. • "Might need next" learns which cards you use, on the device. • Build a sentence from several cards, or "Type to Speak". • "Show to listener" puts the sentence in large letters for the person in front of you. • Male or female voice, at the speaking speed you prefer. FOR CAREGIVERS • Make cards with your own words and photos; TalkNode never overwrites them. • A PIN-protected caregiver area, medicine reminders and "Usage Insights". CARE NETWORK (OPTIONAL) Family members and caregivers install TalkNode on their own phone or tablet and join with a 6-digit code. • SOS and "come to me" requests reach them at once, repeat until someone answers, and widen to the whole family if nobody does. • The patient sees in pictures who saw the request and who is coming, and confirms when they arrive. • Every request keeps a timeline (delivered, seen, coming, arrived) with response times and a weekly report. • Medicine doses can be confirmed with a short silent video that goes to the family's phones. • Live view and on-device movement and sleep detection stay off until they are switched on at the patient's device. A "LIVE" sign is always shown while someone watches. SOS With a care network, SOS alarms everyone in it. Without one, SOS opens your messaging app with a ready-written message and a map link; you send it yourself. PRIVACY The board works offline, with no account. The optional care network uses an anonymous account and Google Firebase servers in the EU; what it needs is shared only with the members of your network. No ads, no analytics, no tracking.

MyBella is an adaptive Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) app designed to make personally meaningful words easier to find, choose, and speak. Many AAC boards are static: the same vocabulary stays in the same place regardless of the person, their routine, or the moment. That can leave an important word buried behind several categories. MyBella helps close that gap by personalizing the board around the user’s real life and bringing potentially useful vocabulary closer—without deciding what the user wants to say. The user always makes the final choice. HOW MYBELLA WORKS • Build and speak messages: Tap picture symbols to form a sentence, then hear it spoken aloud using the device’s built-in voice. • Adaptive suggestions: MyBella recognizes patterns in which words are selected and when, helping prioritize vocabulary that may be useful at that time. • Routine awareness: Caregivers can add a recurring daily schedule so relevant words may be suggested up to 45 minutes before an activity. • Personalized vocabulary: Build the board around the people, places, foods, activities, and phrases that matter to the individual. • Custom AI-drawn symbols: Enter a word and describe how it should look. MyBella creates a matching visual in the same clean, consistent style as the rest of the board. • Five supported languages: Communicate in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, or Arabic, including right-to-left support for Arabic and translated custom words. • Text-to-speech: Choose from voices installed on the device. Speech works offline and does not require a per-word fee. • Caregiver dashboard: A PIN-protected space gives caregivers control of routines, custom vocabulary, and personalization settings. • Accessibility controls: Adjust text, buttons, symbol size, colors, contrast, and motion to create a calmer, more usable interface. • Personal avatar: Customize a friendly avatar that can reflect the last feeling the user shared. WHAT MAKES MYBELLA DIFFERENT MyBella combines adaptive vocabulary, schedule-aware suggestions, multilingual communication, and custom symbol generation in one calm interface. Its AI does not speak for the user or claim to know what they are thinking. It narrows the search while preserving communication autonomy. Profiles, schedules, and custom words are stored on the device by default rather than pooled into a shared user dataset. WHY MYBELLA EXISTS Founder Ashley created MyBella after visiting her cousin Isabella in Brazil and seeing how few useful, affordable communication tools were available to her. Ashley continued learning through her work with ACEing Autism and spent the following year developing and refining the app with Isabella and her family. MyBella was built from that experience: communication should be personal, accessible, affordable, and able to travel across homes, schools, clinics, languages, and countries. MyBella is intended to support communication. It does not diagnose or treat a condition and does not replace guidance from a speech-language pathologist or other qualified professional.