Proloquo4Text AAC vs SpellRBoard

Proloquo4Text™ is a text to speech app for those who cannot rely on their voice to speak. The app is laid out on a single screen to reduce the effort of typing. The layout enables easy, daily conversation and quick access to your most common phrases. Personalize it to your needs and preferences, whether that’s through choosing from the many voices available, or through customizing your screen layout. Proloquo4Text is the leading AAC solution for literate adults, teens and children. It is used by people with a wide range of diagnoses, including developmental disabilities (like autism, apraxia, and cerebral palsy) and acquired disorders (like laryngectomy, ALS, stroke, or traumatic brain injury). Proloquo4Text can be used to produce speech by anyone who can type and spell. Communicate with ease • Use the single screen for easy access to words, phrases and keyboard • Switch easily between conversations, making it easy to answer a question in another conversation, without disrupting what you typed in the first conversation. • Decide when you speak with play, pause and speak-as-you-type • Adjust appearance (font, color, text size) to your preference and needs Reduce typing effort • Create, save and organize commonly used phrases • Make typing quicker with advanced, self-learning PolyPredix™ word prediction • Show what you typed with the fullscreen view and flip text features • Type once, then say it again with history and sentence prediction • Use keyboard shortcuts for quick access when using an external keyboard Choose your voice • Download, natural-sounding voices within Proloquo4Text. All premium Acapela voices are included in Proloquo4Text with no in-app purchase. • Add personality and humor to your conversations with free specialty voices • Choose from over 100 voices in 18 languages, so you can find the one that sounds most like you. Switch easily between languages. • Use my-own-voice, a voice-banking technology, to preserve and capture the essence of your own voice in synthetic speech. Share your world • Send email, messages, and tweets from Proloquo4Text • Write in Proloquo4Text and copy your text into another app • Listen to text by pasting into Proloquo4Text • Make phone and FaceTime video calls with Proloquo4Text. Take your voice anywhere • Proloquo4Text is available on both iOS and macOS. With iOS, you can use the app on your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. The Mac version is a separate purchase on the Mac App Store. • Smoothly transition between devices, thanks to Proloquo4Text’s consistent navigation on iPhone and iPad • Easily access your commonly used phrases on Apple Watch, and just tap to show or speak them. You can customize the contents shown on the Watch from your iPhone. Accessibility features • Follow words as they are spoken with optional sentence or word highlighting • Optimized for Switch Control and VoiceOver • Communicate without an internet connection • Use multitasking functionality to run another app side-by-side on supported devices • Keep your devices in sync by easily backing up and restoring your customizations and stored phrases. AssistiveWare® is the developer of Proloquo2Go®, an award-winning symbol-based communication app that provides a voice to over 200,000 individuals around the world. Additional note: Educational institutions can get a 50% discount if they purchase 20 or more licenses through Apple’s Volume Purchase Program for Education.

SpellRBoard is a simple, effective, and accessible digital letterboard app designed to help individuals who are unable to communicate reliably using their voice. Whether due to speech impairments, neurological conditions, or other challenges, SpellRBoard allows users to spell out words and phrases using an alphanumeric letterboard. Paired with text-to-speech technology SpellRBoard offers an easy-to-use platform for those in need of an AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) solution. SpellRBoard removes the clutter of ads, pop-ups, and ongoing payments so that users can focus solely on what matters most: communication. Key Features: • Ad-Free, No Additional Costs: SpellRboard is a one-time purchase with no hidden fees, no ads, and no in-app purchases. All features are included at the time of purchase, offering a hassle-free experience. No registration is required. • Alphanumeric Letterboard: SpellRboard uses a digital alphanumeric letterboard that includes all the letters of the alphabet, numbers, and commonly used symbols. The letterboard is easy to navigate and designed for fast and reliable spelling, allowing users to create complete thoughts by selecting individual letters. • Text-to-Speech (TTS) Output: Using Apple’s proprietary Text To Speech synthesizer. • Save/Copy Options: Easily save your spelling sessions to other apps like the Notes app. • Customizable Speech Settings: Choose from a variety of voices and adjust speech speed, pitch, and volume to ensure the voice output meets individual preferences and needs. • Offline Functionality: SpellRboard works without requiring an internet connection, ensuring that users have reliable access to the app at all times, whether at home, on the go, or in settings where internet access is unavailable. Currently we support the following languages: • English TTS Voices with English Alphabet. • French TTS Voices with English Alphabet • Spanish TTS Voices with Spanish Alphabet • Dutch TTS Voices with English Alphabet • Greek TTS Voices with Greek Alphabet Note From Developer: I designed this app originally for my younger brother, who has autism and is non speaking. My family has been helping him learn to communicate using a letteboard, where he points to each letter, spelling out whatever he wants to say. I realized that I could create a digital version of a letterboard so he could spell independently. I was encouraged to publish the app and refine it, so that it could be accessible to all. SpellRBoard- because everyone has a voice and deserves to be heard.