Niki Diary vs MetaTalk

Niki Diary was developed for children, teen-agers and adults with disabilities that experience difficulties in explaining what they have done or what they plan to do. Niki Diary enables them to tell people around them what they did or what they plan to do a certain day using images, videos, text and speech. The application can also be used as a memory support to that one can watch or listen what one has done earlier. One may choose to let each user have several profiles, for example "At home", "At school", "At work" or create different users with their own profile. Especially this helps people with communication difficulties and behavior problems to increase their levels of autonomy and participation. It can be very helpful for subjects with autism, mental retardation, behavior disorders, language disorders, pervasive developmental disorder, aphasia, attention deficit disorder, dyslexia, emotional disturbances, learning disabilities, brain trauma.

Four ready-to-use vocabularies in German are preconfigured, they can be customized and adapted easily for life long use: >6x11 with about 5000 words/phrases >5x9 with about 2000 words/phrases >4x7 with about 1500 words/phrases >3x5 with about 1000 words/phrases MetaTalk combines core and topic specific vocabulary in each section, avoiding deep hierarchical structures, allowing fast communication with a few taps. Pages with characters allow the transition to text-based communications. Rich grammar functions emulate language learning and provide easy access for correct communication. Color-coding for word-types can be activated and is user configurable. Phrases or sentences can be copied or saved to Photos for further use in chats and email; they can also be stored in our MemoBox for future use, for example in a talk or presentation. Search finds all words or phrases in a vocabulary and shows the path for each occurrence. Paths can be copied or saved to Photos. +Voices MetaTalk contains the Apple voices for all languages provided by iPadOS, and includes high-quality German voices by Acapela Male and female adult voices: Julia and Klaus In addition, the children voices Lea and Jonas, and the adult voice Claudia are available as in-app purchases. +METACOM © 2023 Annette Kitzinger The MetaTalk Library contains all METACOM symbols, and all terms are preconfigured with word-type and a word-forms. Add new term to a vocabulary with simple drag-and-drop from the library. You can create and copy vocabularies and customize them for example for different users. Vocabularies and pages can be exported and imported in compatible software versions. Additions materials - for example games and educational materials - are available for download.