Work Autonomy vs Speaking Email

Work Autonomy empowers people to succeed in the workplace by supporting independent task completion, workplace communication, and understanding job expectations through visual schedules, task breakdowns, and concrete performance feedback. Recommended by people with disabilities, challenges with memory, struggles with reading, and by parents, teachers, SLPs, job coaches, and vocational rehabilitation specialists supporting individuals with Down syndrome, autism, cognitive disorders, intellectual and/or developmental disabilities, stroke, and traumatic brain injury. KEY FEATURES: Visual Schedules & Task Analysis Break down workplace activities into manageable steps, with content capture options to meet accommodation needs and preferences using video, photos, voice/sound, and text. Designed for job tasks, work routines, and vocational skill development. • Create step-by-step visual guides for any workplace activity • Use voice, text, photo or video to capture specific actions, routes, or sequences • Add footage of actual people, places, and items from the user’s environment • Set visual timers, counters, and/or clocks to support production expectations • Track task completion and build independence on the job Functional Workplace Communication Support meaningful communication across work environments. • Program recurring or one-time messages for coworkers and supervisors • Share stories between home and work to support social connection • Use photos, videos, text, and/or voice to make communication accessible • Capture external messages from family members or job coaches for workplace use • Record ASL, Spanish, or othe languages into recordings of task analysis • Record simple work related messages for direct communication between coworkers Production & Earnings Tracking Provide clear, concrete information about work performance and wages. • Track timed and/or counted elements of job production • View performance using simple, visual graphs • Set productivity targets with employers to clarify expectations • Monitor earnings and lost wages to support informed work choices • Email graphs directly to employers, job coaches, and/or guardians FULL CUSTOMIZATION The design focuses on accessibility, allowing users to program and customize content to meet their preferences, communication, and processing needs. All programmed information is stored in libraries within each section and can be reused and edited as needed. • Use real photos, film, and voice rather than black line drawings and automated speech • Capture or import content using video, photo, text, and/or voice • Store, edit, and retrieve content for repeated workplace routines • Share Schedules across devices DESIGNED FOR ACCESSIBILITY: • Adaptive Switch Access supported • Intuitive interface for users with varying abilities • Apple’s Volume Licensing for Education available SUPPORT & RESOURCES: Educational tutorials and support videos available at www.ableopps.com WHO BENEFITS: Individuals seeking greater independence in employment, transitioning to adult life, or building self-management abilities at work, school, or in the community. Terms of Use: https://www.ableopps.com/terms

Reads your email out loud, lets you reply and manage mail by voice commands. Ideal for visually impaired users, driving, or anytime you'd like to check email hands free & eyes free. Premium Edition is free for 7 days. Then you are automatically switched to Basic Edition. (Note for CarPlay users: see our other app 'Speaking Email CP') — WHY DO I WANT IT? — FOR DRIVERS Get more time in your day when you check your email on the move. Most people spend 1-2 hours in their inbox. With the help of Speaking Email during your daily drive to work, you can easily cut this time in half. Get more done, stay on top and keep a clean inbox. Voice commands and simple gestures designed to be safe to use while driving give you the ability to archive, flag or even reply on the move. (Note for CarPlay users: see also our other app "Speaking Email CP") FOR ACCESSIBILITY Makes email easy to use for those with visual impairment, blindness, dyslexia, stroke, motor dysfunction. Designed to be used without needing to see or touch the screen, Speaking Email works as a fully voice operated email app. Note: a sighted assistant or VoiceOver is required to sign into your email account and configure the many preferences to your liking. The rest is all voice controlled! — HOW DOES IT WORK? — Speaking Email reads your latest emails out loud from your inbox, one by one. Swipe left and right to play your inbox like a jukebox. Whip through your inbox, clear clutter, flag important items and make inbox zero a reality - all while on the go. You can interact with your email using full screen taps, swipes and voice commands. Voice recognition needs a trigger. You choose when to pause for a command - on full screen tap, every 30 seconds, at the start/end of emails. — FEATURES — - Smart content detection skips over disclaimers, reply headers, and email signatures to speak only the content without the clutter - Multilingual mode automatically detects the email language and switches voices to match, using Apple text-to-speech voices - Makes use of the latest Apple speech recognition technology lets you dictate your reply, which is read back to you before sending - Our simple Ignore Sender command puts you in control, allowing you to avoid hearing emails from the sender in future - Connects securely to all email servers, including Gmail (using Google Sign In), Microsoft 365 (aka Office 365 - using Microsoft Sign In supporting Intune, MFA and OAUTH), Exchange (via ActiveSync), IMAP, POP, iCloud (using app password), Outlook/Hotmail (using Microsoft Sign In), Yahoo (using Yahoo Sign In), AOL (using AOL Sign In) - Voice commands and buttons include: Next Back Archive/Done Flag Trash Reply Forward Ignore (thumbs down) Important (thumbs up) Block Sender Rewind Fast Forward Compose Search Voice Slower Faster People When - Many preferences to set up your experience how you like — QUESTIONS — Reach us at feedback@speaking.email See our FAQ: http://www.speaking.email/faq Feature tour: http://www.speaking.email — RECOGNITION — - Gizmodo - "Highly Recommended" by Marc Saltzman in USA Today - TV3 News (NZ), Sky News - The Australian, Herald Sun, Daily Telegraph - NZ Herald, National Business Review - Featured by Apple in Best New Apps - Voted Most Fundable App by Context.IO - Finalist in NZ Hi Tech Awards — QUOTES — “This is a nifty app, and one that will make driving a little safer for inbox addicts”—NBR “My eyesight isn’t as it was years ago, and your Speaking Email makes it so much easier for me to keep in touch with folks” — Willis Hargrave “I absolutely love the app and being an outside sales rep in the car 4-6 hours a day find it incredibly helpful. It is literally freeing up and hour or 2 of time for me every day I am on the road by having a lot less time at the desk doing email. THANKS!!!” — Scott Middleton https://speaking.email/page/privacy https://speaking.email/page/terms-of-use