Description
Convert text to speech audio with customizable voice styles and languages. Select from offline or internet-based voices, including 200+ options in 60 languages. Create personalized offline voices on compatible devices.
This app provides an easy-to-use interface to play back the text you type as text-to-speech audio. It's made to be used as augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). Some features:
Voices
• Select from all the voice styles & languages on your device
• Choose between offline voices and Internet-powered voices from Google, spanning 200+ voices in 60 languages. No download or login required
• Supports Personal Voice on newer devices, letting you create an offline text-to-speech voice that sounds like you (English & Mandarin only)
• Save your favorite voice settings in a convenient list
Phrases
• Save & categorize quick phrases to play back with a tap. Rearrange & color code your phrases
• Create separate groups of phrases for every language you use
• Add pictures, emoji labels, and/or alternate text to phrases
• Search for free symbols on the online ARASAAC library to add to your buttons
• Show text above or below pictures
• Save your phrases to a file, so you can backup or share with others. Importing a file will update matching phrases
Misc.
• Speak individual words or sentences as you type them
• Auto clear the text field after pressing play
• Play spoken text over phone calls (offline voices only)
• Share audio clips as voice messages to other apps
• Look at a history of messages you've played while using the app
• Customize font size, text field size, button size, etc. to your liking. Save and load the layouts you create
• Layout automatically adapts to all screen sizes, small & large
• Convenient design where any action takes just a few taps
• Light & dark modes
This app is for anyone who needs help speaking, including those with conditions such as verbal apraxia, aphasia, autism, anxiety, & selective mutism, among others.
Even if you've only temporarily lost your voice, or just want to play with text-to-speech, this app's for you!
Please feel free to share feedback on how it’s working for you & how it can be more accessible, either at [email protected] or with a review. Enjoy!
Made with love by an AAC user with selective mutism.
App information from Apple App Store. TypingTalk AAC and related trademarks belong to Samiya Noureen.