MyTalkTools Mobile
By 2nd Half Enterprises LLC
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Description
MyTalkTools Mobile for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad enables people with communication difficulties to express their needs and desires to those around them. Your purchase provides permanent access to MyTalk Mobile (totally stand alone software)and a 30 day trial of optional MyTalk Workspace. Together, they represent a major breakthrough in augmentative, alternative communications (AAC) by making it easy to customize how you communicate through a variety of images, pictures, symbols, video and audio files including human voice. In 5 minutes, you can create your very own content and communicate in a way that YOU choose. You also won't have to worry about losing or breaking your device as all information is backed up on MyTalk Workspace. MyTalk offers ease of use and time-savings in a portable, effective, and cool communication tool. MyTalk helps people communicate in a whole new way.
What comes with MyTalk Mobile?
-Full AAC capability for communicating via iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad
-Mobile Authoring mode: Create fully customized AAC content on the fly with your device
-Local content — no Internet connection required to communicate
-Wireless sync with MyTalk Workspace using Wi-Fi or 3G (if you opt for the optional Workspace)
-Flexible authoring allows use of video(enabling modeling), photos, web images, sound, text and Text to Speech
-Full-sentence communication with the Phrase Bar feature
-Switch capability with visual scan
-Online access to Symbolstix image library
-Basic Text to speech, including one adult female voice
-Optional (InApp Purchase)of Advanced Text to Speech with Acapela Voices (17+ languages, multiple voices)
-Video with Auditory Scan (requires optional InApp purchase of Acapela Voices)
-Fonts: 10-60
-Zoom off or on with Unzoom images either manual or at predetermined intervals
-Drag & Drop cell rearrangement in Mobile!
-Web image search in Mobile, from multiple sources (requires wifi or 3G to search)
-Library image search including Symbolstix, the MyTalk Public Library, or your private Library(requires wifi or 3G to search)
-Full sentence communication with the Phrase Bar feature (off / on capability)
-Phrase mode features digital recorded voice or TTS if no digital file associated with cell
-Switch capability with visual scan (RJ Cooper & Ablenet blue tooth switches)
-Switch Auto Scan with variable scan intervals
-Optional Advanced Text to Speech with Acapela Voices with a choice 17+ languages, multiple voices. (Optional InApp Purchase)
-Auditory Scan (requires optional InApp purchase of Acapela Voices)
-TTS Words per Minute adjustments (requires optional InApp purchase of Acapela Voices)
-TTS Voice Shaping (requires optional InApp purchase of Acapela Voices)
MyTalk LLC is a member of Moms with Apps, a collaborative group of family-friendly developers seeking to promote quality apps for kids and families.
Recommended Ages: all
Categories: Early Learning, Special Needs, Parents
What's New in Version 3.1.2
There are no functional updates in version 3.1.1. This is the latest tribute release of MyTalk with internal commands translated into Italian. Those translations were donated by Giovanni and Paola for the benefit of their son Livio, who will now be able to express all that he has inside, and hasn't had the opportunity to express so far. And to the future of all the kids like him.
Any user that selects ‘International / Language’ in iDevice Settings then selects Italiano, will see MyTalkTools Mobile commands in their native language.
Customer Reviews
Well-conceived app
The main reason I like this, apart from very clean and simple boards that are highly responsive, is that is intelligently backed up and synchronized with a web-based authoring environment. It is only a matter of time before the iPad is stolen, dropped, or missing. With this software, you get your new device, type in a name and password, and voila--your boards are re-downloaded. It's a great concept.
There is a bit of an initial learning curve, but once you learn it, it's pretty straight forward. Took me a couple hours before I felt comfortable, but now it seems fine.
When there's a field of 2, the images are nice and huge and fill most of the space, rather than most apps where you're limited to a tiny square.
Also, you can create boards and sub-boards galore, so the hierarchy of language starts to make sense, and become usable, vs other programs, where it's a flat hierarchy.
Also, with this app, you can import pictures from the web incredibly easily just by typing a keyword search. For examble, we buy a certain brand of yogurt, and i typed that brand into MyTalk Mobile's web search, and a picture of the package instantly appeared, well photographed, clean, etc. I just selected it, and it worked great.
For teachers and speech pathologists, you can have multiple sets of boards for multiple clients, and copy and paste boards and sub-boards. Since boards are synced with a web-based authoriing workspace, you can replicate these boards on ANY iPhone or iPad simply by typing in a username and password. For example, a client can have access to their board on their i-device, and you can log in as them on your own iPad and instantly pull up their board. It's pretty cool. They've really thought it through.
The responsiveness is great--as soon as you press the picture, you hear the sound, and the picture "blinks" to give you visual feedback.
Downsides:
1) When authoring new boards on the iPad, seems slightly buggy--when pasting cells, it seems to create an endless loop. But you quickly figure out workarounds, but it seems like a lot of extra pointing and clicking.
2) The web authoring environment is great in concept, though it is quite pokey. I find it faster to author on the iPad, which is ironic, because they created the web authoring environment to enable faster authoring.
- $49.99
- Category: Education
- Updated: Apr 28, 2012
- Version: 3.1.2
- Size: 16.3 MB
- Languages: English, Danish, Dutch, Hebrew, Italian
- Seller: 2nd Half Enterprises LLC
- © Francis J. Pratt
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 3.2 or later
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