New: let the AI Call Assistant make your phone calls, have someone read along live on their own screen, and use Talkie from your Apple Watch. Plus a rebuilt soundboard.
Talkie is a speech and communication app for anyone who has temporarily or permanently lost their voice — and for anyone who finds speaking difficult. Type what you want to say and have it spoken in a realistic voice, or show it large on your screen. Build whole sentences in a few taps on your own soundboard. And when a phone call is out of the question, let Talkie make the call for you.
As a developer with a speech impairment, I know how frustrating it is not to be understood. That is why Talkie exists: so you can make yourself clear in seconds.
SPEAK AND SHOW
• Type a sentence and have it spoken in a natural male or female voice.
• Show your text full screen, or as a scrolling LED banner with your own styles and effects — readable across a crowded room.
• Translate your sentence before you speak or show it.
SOUNDBOARD
• Tiles with your own text, colours, icons, photos or pictograms (ARASAAC), organised in folders.
• Place tiles exactly where you want them and set the number of columns for phone and tablet separately.
• Tap single words and Talkie turns them into a flowing sentence.
• Open a board full screen, or turn a folder into a board of its own.
• Browse ready-made boards from other users, and share your own.
SPEECH TO TEXT
• Turn spoken or whispered words into text and have them read aloud.
• Record conversations and meetings with no time limit.
• AI fixes typos and finishes your sentence properly.
AI CALL ASSISTANT
• Tell Talkie who to call and why — it handles the conversation for you.
• Listen in live, steer the call, or type exactly what should be said.
• Afterwards you get a full transcript with a summary, ready to save.
READ ALONG LIVE
• Share a six-digit code and the person you are talking to reads along in real time on their own screen.
• Send voice messages, or add video.
REMINDERS
• Reminders, notes and voice memos in one place, with photos, a location and repeating patterns.
• Notifications that keep nudging until you tick them off — useful for medication.
• Ask a question about your own reminders and get an answer.
STORIES
• Tell your own story with photos, videos and text, read aloud by an AI voice.
AND MORE
• Speech therapy: practise word lists and hear yourself back.
• ID card: who you are and what others need to know, always at hand.
• Camera: magnify small print, scan QR codes, or have AI describe what is in a photo.
• Have a PDF read aloud.
• Apple Watch: your tiles, your history and recording from your wrist. Turn your wrist and the other person reads along.
TALKIE PRO
Talkie is free to use. Talkie PRO adds:
• Realistic AI voices (male and female).
• Unlimited tiles, folders and stories.
• Cloud backup and syncing with your other devices.
• The AI Call Assistant and transcription of recordings.
• Image search for your tiles, and the live camera.
• Choose your own start screen and lock tiles with a PIN.
• No ads.
Subscription: €7.99 per month or €79.99 per year. Prices may vary by country; you will see the exact price in the app. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period in your Apple ID settings.
Talkie is here to let your voice be heard.
Privacy Policy: https://www.talkie-app.com/privacy
General Terms and Conditions: https://www.talkie-app.com/terms
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Don’t actually work with the Apple Watch only shows a black screen when you open it on the watch. I use text to speech to talk it be nice if the app worked on the watch as well. Since I often forget or lose my phone. There is an expensive one I read about, but who has 120 bucks to spend on a talking app?
Developer Response
Unfortunately was the Apple Watch feature not a success. Maybe in the feature when Apple give access to the Scribble. This will be amazing when we could use Scribble on the Apple Watch for Talkie.
This is the biggest Talkie update so far.
AI CALL ASSISTANT (PRO)
Make a phone call without speaking. Tell Talkie who you are calling and why, and it handles the conversation. Listen in live, steer it, or type exactly what should be said. Afterwards you get a transcript with a summary, and you can save the appointment straight into Reminders.
READ ALONG LIVE
Share a six-digit code and the person you are talking to reads along in real time on their own screen. New: voice messages inside the conversation, and video alongside it.
REBUILT SOUNDBOARD
• Place tiles anywhere in the grid, and choose your own number of columns.
• Single words automatically become a flowing sentence.
• ARASAAC pictograms, image search on the web, and one tile generator for everything.
• A folder can now be a board of its own.
• Full-screen boards, and a movable toolbar on tablet.
• Discover ready-made boards from others and share your own.
REMINDERS REBUILT
Search with filters, calendar items at the top, photos, a location that taps through to your maps app, repeating patterns, and notifications that keep nudging until you tick them off. New: voice memos, and asking a question about your own reminders.
APPLE WATCH AND WIDGET
A full Watch app with your tiles, your history and recording from your wrist. Scroll with the crown, open a tile full screen, and turn your wrist so the other person can read along. Plus a widget for your reminders.
RECORDING AND TRANSCRIPTION
Recordings with no time limit for conversations and meetings, with transcription (PRO). Speech recognition moved to Google STT and OpenAI Whisper.
ALSO NEW
• Live camera mode and PDF read-aloud.
• LED banner with styles, effects and dot-matrix.
• Stories in a new full-screen view, with a cover photo and automatic read-aloud.
• Short explainer clips on the screens where you need them.
FIXED
Reminders fired an hour off around daylight saving time. Also: tile drag and drop, the camera view, voice persistence, notifications from deleted reminders, and dozens of smaller improvements to controls and accessibility.
Questions or an idea? Let us know at www.talkie-app.com/feedback
Version 5.0.1
The developer, Petrus Stefanus Oudshoorn, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
Usage Data
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Identifiers
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
Seller
Petrus Stefanus Oudshoorn
Size
197.2 MB
Category
Medical
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.