Speech Assistant AAC is a text-to-speech app designed for people with speech impairments caused by conditions like Aphasia, MND/ALS, Autism, Stroke, and Cerebral Palsy. The app lets users create categories and phrases that are mapped to buttons for creating messages that can be displayed or spoken. Users can input any text via the keyboard.
The app is customizable to individual needs and preferences. It organizes phrases into categories, and has a history function for retrieving past phrases. Users can select photos or symbols for buttons, and choose between voice recordings or iOS text-to-speech voices. It supports Apple's Personal Voice, has a full-screen button for large font display, an autocomplete function, and tabs for multiple conversations. It works with iPhone/iPad in portrait and landscape layout, and Apple watch. Data can be backed up to iCloud, Mail or AirDrop.
The app can be used during Phone and FaceTime calls, removing the need for a second device for speech output. Users can add, change or delete categories and phrases, and create unlimited categories for quick access to phrases. It also allows creation of users with their own categories, phrases, and settings for different languages or individuals. A long press function allows easy editing of phrase and category buttons. The app is fully customizable, with adjustable button sizes, textbox, and text, and allows creation of personal color schemes and changing the button order. The full-screen feature is useful in noisy environments, and the text can be rotated for easy communication. The speech function allows for adjustment of the rate and pitch, and the option to speak each word or character while typing. The app supports speech recording onto a button and importing voice recordings. For Apple Watch users, the app can be used to communicate short messages. The app uses the built-in iOS text-to-speech voices, with a range of voices in 40 languages available.
