Text to Speech

Use Claro ScanPen to photo your printed text document,  then select the text with your finger (or stylus), and hear it spoken straight back to you. 

Read&Write features include:

• Text-to-speech: Read what I type including individual words, passages, or whole documents aloud with easy-to-follow dual color highlighting.
• Text & Picture Dictionaries: Provide definitions and display images to help with word comprehension.
  Vocabulary List: Creates a list instantly into a new doc, including selected words, the dictionary definitions, images
• Rewordify: simplifies the readability of text without changing the meaning. (Only available for Read&Write for Google Chrome)
• Check It: Reviews writing for incorrect grammar, spelling (phonetic), capitalization, punctuation, verb tense and more.
• Audio Maker: Converts selected text into an audio file, and automatically downloads
• Talk&Type: Turns the spoken word into text (unavailable for Read&Write for Mac users).

TD Snap acts as a communication support and therapy tool for aphasia

Tools include: 

• white board,
• rating scales,
• customisable word lists that can be categorised and used in semantic therapies
• conversation scripts
• photo album

Available in English, German and Italian

Keeble is an iOS keyboard.

It gives the user control over the colour, font and complexity of the keyboard.

Keeble features word prediction, can give auditory feedback on letters and words and the ability to control voice / speech rate.

It offers:

1. Simplified ABC offers an ABC keyboard and leaves out all the difficult, less important keys. It is intended for beginning users who are still exploring letters and who should not be distracted by keys they do not need.
2. Simplified QWERTY is a standard keyboard, leaving out all the difficult, less important keys. It is intended for beginning writers who should not be distracted by keys they do not need.
3. QWERTY is the standard keyboard layout.
4. QWERTY extended is optimized for iPad Pro.
5. Scanning - ABC offers a simplified, ABC keyboard for users with fine-motor challenges who access the keyboard through switch scanning.
6. Scanning - Frequency of use is a research-based keyboard layout that offers letters based on frequency of use: the most frequently used letters are placed at the beginning of the keyboard, saving switch scanners lots of time.

Keeble features word prediction, can give auditory feedback on letters and words and the ability to control voice / speech rate.

It can be used with scanning / switch control

Available in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, German, Italian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Czech, and Polish. In addition, the app offers regional keyboard layouts for British English, Australian English and Canadian English, as well as Flemish, Swiss French, and Canadian French. 

Predictable is a predominantly text to speech based app.

 The keyboard screen has predicitive text  and multiple access methods.

The grid screen can be used to store phrases and  words. It can be personalised by adding images, multi-media and audio recordings.

Access can be vis Direct touch, Screen tap, Switch access, Head tracking or connect a compatible Eye-tracker