Description
Attainment has been making augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) tools for 25 years. Our experience is front and center in GoTalk NOW, a flexible, easy-to-use, yet powerful app for people who have difficulty speaking.
NOW combines the simplicity of GoTalks (Attainment’s popular static AAC device) with the dynamic capabilities of an iPad. GoTalk NOW has all the essentials of an effective AAC app, like adjustable page layouts, customizable navigation, recorded and text-to-speech capabilities, and an included symbol set. But we sweated the details to create unique and compelling features that clearly separate the NOW from other AAC apps.
Imagine creating as many communication books as you need, each with unique settings
and unlimited pages. Then share these books with other users via WiFi, and back them up for safekeeping via Dropbox or any Mac/PC. Envision the impact of blending video, music, and jump to actions among your pages. How cool is it to have your own private online galley to store and save your templates (up to five communication pages) for free, and to email these templates to parents and colleagues! Plus, GoTalk NOW is a full-feature scanning app!
Features:
• Choose 1, 4, 9, 16, or 25 locations per page.
• Use images from your iPad camera, photo library, or the Imagine Symbol set.
• Search the internet in-app for the perfect image or icon.
• Crop, scale, or rotate an image using your fingers.
• Combine multiple images in a single communication location.
• Color pages, borders, and text with any hue.
• Move and size text with your fingers so it feels just right.
• Record your voice or choose text to speech (voices for 99 cents in over 20 languages).
• Add spoken labels (auditory cues) to any button. Great for scanning, guiding visually impaired users, and identifying any new or difficult vocabulary.
• Play videos from any communication location.
• Trim videos to desired length in app.
• Select our alternate video interface to pause or exit the video easily.
• Link songs from your playlist to any communication location and control them with Pause/Play, Next, and Previous.
• Choose standard or express style communication pages. With standard pages. press any communication location for speech, music, or video. Express pages build recorded or text to speech messages in a top-of-the-screen speech bar. When the bar is pressed, the messages play together in sequence.
• Give the communicator access to essential messages on any page with the core vocabulary button.
• Create multimedia social stories and step-by-step instruction books by linking pages with an after action.
• Make as many communication books as you need , each with their own settings.
• Fill a communication book with unlimited pages.
• Share complete communication books via WiFi with any iPad user that has NOW.
• Back up communication books via Dropbox or to any Mac or PC for safekeeping.
• Store and share up to five interactive templates (each including speech, video, text, and Jump to links) on our online gallery free.
• Download and edit premade templates from Attainment’s collection on the public gallery, also free.
• Email links to your templates. Parents and colleagues click on the link which automatically opens NOW on their iPad, then opens the template.
• Print and save communication book layouts via PDFs.
• Access NOW with an accessibility switch. Use the Attainment Switch (an app that turns an iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch into a switch) or RJ Cooper’s Bluetooth SuperSwitch.
• Select auto or step scan plus scanning speed.
• Group scanning by rows or columns. Add an extra auditory cue to announce when the row or column advances.
• Scan in app by converting the screen of your iPad to a switch.
Attainment is well known for top notch customer service. Email us with questions or comments and check our website for free webinars. And yes, we're happy to talk to you on the telephone!
What's New in Version 3.0.0
iPad 3 Retina Support
Pro Features are now Free
Express Pages
Backup to Computers and Dropbox
Updated Users Guide
Bug Fixes
iPad Screenshots
Customer Reviews
A God Send
We have a 4 year old non-verbal son with Autism and the GoTalk Now app has finally allowed him to communicate his wants and needs with us. He uses the PECS system at school but refused to use it at home. When we purchased the iPad we immediately began looking for communication apps. The thing we loved the most about the GoTalk Now app was that we started with a blank slate. Although it takes time to customize the app, it is worth it. We can add and/or delete things as needed which is great. It's a great app for a decent price. We are very pleased with it and it's wonderful to finally be able to communicate with our son.
Perfect
I absolutely love this app. It's so easy to program and support has been excellent. For us it has been so much better than an original app we bought for $189.00. The text to speech is amazingly accurate.
Not working..
app is frozen, and will not reopen. Speech Path is having same problem? Not sure if its Apple or the app?
- $79.99
- Category: Education
- Updated: Apr 05, 2012
- Version: 3.0.0
- Size: 244 MB
- Languages: English, German
- Seller: Attainment Company, Inc.
- © 2011 Attainment Company
Requirements: Compatible with iPad.Requires iOS 4.2 or later.
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