TapSpeak Choice for iPad
By Ted Conley
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Description
TapSpeak Choice for iPad re-interprets communication boards and speech generation devices for the iPad. If you're looking for an easy-to-use and comprehensive app that supports communication needs from simple choice selection to complete speech generation, this is it!
It's a complete communication board and speech editor and player that saves up to 75% of the setup time over conventional devices and virtually eliminates maintenance time. Use the DynaVox/Mayer-Johnson PCS library, your own photos or images, and geometric symbols for visual targets. You can use text to speech voices provided by Acapela Group (20 languages and 43 voices - see TapSpeak.com for details) or your recorded voice. Boards/pages are easily and quickly set up using convenient vocabulary libraries. Multi-touch is intelligently used with editing and setup to greatly speed up these tasks.
For those whose motor skill abilities make it necessary to use a switch, TapSpeak Choice support using the iPad screen as a switch for scanning and supports AbleNet's Blue2 switch and RJ Cooper's iPad Cordless Super-Switch and iPad Switch Interface for external switches. You can use one or two switches for auto scanning and step scan and choose among a complete array of scanning options (sequential, row/column, step scan and multiple configurable settings). You can even set up separate auditory prompts with a separate message, voice, speaking rate and volume.
Children and adults with autism, cerebral palsy, Down Syndrome, cortical vision impairment (CVI), stroke, or any disability that impairs their ability to communicate can make use of TapSpeak Choice.
Please visit our website, TapSpeak.com, for our Getting Started Guide which will show you the basics of navigating board and library layers, and building boards with libraries. Check out our many training videos on your YouTube channel (search for the ConleySolutions channel) for even more information.
Features include:
• One to 56 messages on a board give you plenty of flexibility for different skill levels. Choose from 18 grid dimensions or a dynamic layout that automatically adjusts grid size as you add buttons. New keyboard grid sizes support custom keyboard layouts.
• Board/Page linking/navigation with scanning support. Navigation buttons are stored in the Navigation library which is automatically maintained for you. Change link button speech and image as needed.
• Text to speech with support for 20 languages and 43 voices.
Message window with scanning support. Text to speech (TTS) and recorded voice can be combined seamlessly in the same sentence/phrase. Message window with backspace and clear message buttons for scanning support. Double-tap message window to clear message as well.
New keyboard support lets you type messages and combine typed text with buttons.
• Direct access and many scanning modes including two-switch scanning. Use the entire iPad screen as a switch, or use AbleNet's Blue 2 Switch or RJ Cooper’s iPad Super-Switch and iPad Switch Interface.
• Drag and drop creation and editing of communication pages.
• Spend hours less time setting up pages so you can spend more time with your child or student.
• Pre-populated libraries help you get started. Recorded voice setup as a default - other setups available for download.
• Message visual targets can be from the DynaVox/Mayer-Johnson PCS core library of 4500 symbols, images from your Photo Library or visually stimulating geometric symbols.
• Sort and arrange boards and libraries in categories.
• Tap response is configurable to accommodate kids with varying motor skill levels
• Enhanced auditory prompt (scanning) support. Use a separate voice/recording, speaking rate, and volume.
• Voice manager lets you download additional voices (if available for your language) and configure speaking/auditory prompt voices, speaking rate, and volume.
What's New in Version 3.0.0
• Fully customizable and scannable keyboards. Select one of our supplied keyboards (QWERTY, scanning, alphabetic) or create your own. You can add any button to a keyboard and change a key's image and text in the Keyboard library. Text and buttons can be combined in the message window.
• Text-only buttons. Use sizeable text as the button image.
• Buttons can now be hidden on a page to help introduce new vocabulary to students.
• Page background coloring. Customizable button background coloring, as in Fitzgerald Key, etc., coming soon.
• Performance enhancements. Large libraries and the button picker load much faster. App startup time has been reduced.
• Database redesign for future updates. The update will take a minute or two to update your database the first time the update is run.
• Scanning features: scan multiple cycles (1-5 or continuous), two-switch sequential autoscan, two-switch sequential step-scan.
• Button "pop" can be turned off for faster input.
• New default page set that uses only text-to-speech voices. You can still download the previous default page set that uses recordings.
• Page link buttons have a marker in their title bar to differentiate them from regular buttons.
• The library that appears in the library view and library picker is the most recently used library.
iPad Screenshots
- $149.99
- Category: Education
- Updated: May 18, 2012
- Version: 3.0.0
- Size: 191 MB
- Languages: English, Italian
- Seller: Ted Conley
- © 2010-2011 TapSpeak, LLC
Requirements: Compatible with iPad.Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
