Attainment has been making augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) tools for 25 years. Our experience is front and center in GoTalk NOW, a flexible, easy-to-use, yet powerful app for people who have difficulty speaking.
NOW combines the simplicity of GoTalks (Attainment’s popular original AAC device) with the dynamic capabilities of an iPad. GoTalk NOW has all the essentials of an effective AAC app, like adjustable page layouts, customizable navigation, recorded and text-to-speech capabilities, and an included symbol set. But we sweated the details to create unique and compelling features that clearly separate NOW from other AAC apps.
The new NOW offers three styles of communication pages: Standard, Express, and Scenes. In Standard pages, the action occurs when the location is pressed. In Express pages, recorded or text-to-speech messages build in a speech bar and play in sequence when the bar is pressed. Scene pages are built around a single photo or image. When you arrange invisible hotspots over people or objects in the photo, the hotspots play speech, music, or videos! Feel free to mix and match pages within a communication book.
Create as many communication books as you need, each with unique settings and unlimited pages. Then share these books with other users via WiFi, and back them up for safekeeping via Dropbox or any Mac/PC. Envision the impact of blending video, music, and jump to actions among your pages. How cool is it to have your own private online galley to store and save your templates (up to five communication pages) for free, and to email these templates to parents and colleagues! Plus, GoTalk NOW is a full-feature scanning app!
Features:
• Choose 1, 2, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, or 49 locations per page.
• Use Visual Scene Displays to communicate using familiar images & contexts.
• Hybrid Scene Pages combine the best of both button & VSD pages.
• Import images from your iPad camera, photo library, or the included Imagine Symbol set.
• Search the Internet in-app for the perfect image or icon.
• Purchase SymbolStix, PCS, or Widgit Symbols libraries in-app.
• Crop, scale, or rotate an image using your fingers.
• Combine multiple images in a single communication location.
• Color pages, borders, and text with any hue.
• Move and size text with your fingers so it feels just right.
• Record your voice or use free, built-in text-to-speech voices.
• Buy higher quality voices starting at 99 cents each, available in over 20 languages.
• Add spoken labels (auditory cues) to any button. Great for scanning, guiding visually impaired users, and identifying any new or difficult vocabulary.
• Trim videos in-app, and play them from any communication location.
• Select our alternate video interface to pause or exit the video easily.
• Link songs from your playlist to any communication location and control them with Pause/Play, Next, and Previous.
• Include a core vocabulary button for extra quick access to important messages.
• Create multimedia social stories and step-by-step instruction layouts by linking pages with an after action.
• Share complete communication books via WiFi with any iPad user who has NOW.
• Back up communication books via Dropbox or to any Mac or PC for safekeeping.
• Store and share interactive templates (each including speech, video, text, and jump to links) on our online gallery for free.
• Download and edit premade templates from Attainment’s collection on the public gallery, also free.
• Email links to your templates to parents and colleagues, who can open the template on their iPad by tapping on the link.
• Print and save communication book layouts via PDFs.
• Access Now with single or two-switch scanning.
GoTalk NOW participates in Apple's Volume Purchasing Program for Education in the United States.
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Great, uncomplicated, easy-to-use, customizable AAC program with good, clear voices (extra, relatively minimal purchase), easy set-up and organization---and somewhat limited upload to private/public "galleries" of single or multiple sets (up to five "pages") of your boards., Go Talk's easy facility for choosing internet images to supplement each button on a board does not limit the DATA size of any of its internet images. Although you may easily resize an enormous image to fit on a button, it remains densely data-rich. --Create boards full of these images, and they will either take forever to upload (to mail or transfer to the "Gallery"), or occasionally crash. It's wonderful to have a resident facility for accessing net images; however, an improvement might be continued access (to find pictures the excellent resident Go Talk library is missing) with a self-limiting picture "data size" utility. One must be careful of overloading this excellent program with (e.g.) too many voices, too many pictures, etc.. In my experience--with Go Talk library images (and a smaller data load), the program's boards transfer quickly and efficiently. AAC is inherently clunky, and for moderate users, this is wonderful program which, with a little creative thinking, even inspires novel therapeutic scenarios. (I'm an SLP, relatively inexperienced with AAC. And this program is my own "educational opportunity"...so I am very pleased with it. (Thanks to Attainment for creating it!)
Great Communication App!
clevelandkid
We purchased GoTalkNow to replace another app we had , which was really expensive and clunky to use. I was able to make multiple screens that my son can use at both school and home.I have also made starter pages for his teachers as well, REALLY easy to use. He ad his teachers no longer have to navigate through page after page of icons. I also like that you can link video to the buttons for reinforcement. You can set it up so kids can't just click out of the app as well, how great is that!?! Oh, and they are out of Wisconsin and have VERY helpful tech support, VERY helpful…. Can't stress how happy we are with it.
A God Send
ChristieLou79
We have a 4 year old non-verbal son with Autism and the GoTalk Now app has finally allowed him to communicate his wants and needs with us. He uses the PECS system at school but refused to use it at home. When we purchased the iPad we immediately began looking for communication apps. The thing we loved the most about the GoTalk Now app was that we started with a blank slate. Although it takes time to customize the app, it is worth it. We can add and/or delete things as needed which is great. It's a great app for a decent price. We are very pleased with it and it's wonderful to finally be able to communicate with our son.
Great Communication App
Spitfire918
The only complaint I have is that going from 4 buttons to 9 is too much. I wish there were options for 6 buttons! Otherwise this is a fantastic app for communication! It has made it so much easier for my daughter to communicate what she wants or how she feels with just simple touching! And I love the feature of being able to add anyone's voice to it! Highly recommend this app for anyone with kids who have problems communicating in any way!
Our biggest update ever is here!
GoTalk NOW has been rebuilt from the ground up to help SLPs, teachers, and families create Communication Books faster than ever. Here's what's new:
• Smart, optional AI assistance: On supported iPads, Apple Intelligence helps speed up your work without taking over. Build complete Activity Boards from a quick description, get button text suggestions tailored to each page, find better images with smarter search, and let CARA suggest replies based on what's being said in the room. Every AI feature is optional, runs entirely on-device, and never sends your data anywhere.
• The all-new New Book Creator: Set up a complete Communication Book in minutes. Create a profile, choose a grid, share a bit about the communicator's life, and GoTalk NOW builds a personalized book ready to use.
• A reimagined Page Wizard: Three powerful ways to build a new page: generate a focused Activity Board, start with a blank grid, or pre-fill with the buttons you already use across your book.
• Quick Editor and Batch Editor: Edit one button or forty-nine at once. The new Quick Editor puts everything you need in a single popup, and the Batch Editor lets you change colors, fonts, text, and more across multiple buttons at the same time.
• Sound it Out: A brand-new action for early literacy. Tap a button and watch the word float to the center of the screen, sounded out one segment at a time, with each piece highlighted as it's read. For best results, use with Recorded Audio messages. TTS support for English only.
• Better Keyboard Pages: A redesigned full-screen keyboard, smarter word prediction, sentence-starter shortcuts, and a saved Phrases folder. Plus CARA, our new Conversation-Aware Response Assistant, listens to the conversation and suggests responses in real time.
• Smarter Scene Pages: Save the faces of family members, classmates, and friends, and GoTalk NOW will recognize them in new photos and place hotspots automatically. All processing happens on-device.
• Vocabulary Reports: A powerful new tool for SLPs and educators to analyze the vocabulary in a Communication Book, track progress, and make informed decisions about what to teach next.
• Export to GoTalk Connect: Send any page directly to a GoTalk Connect device over Bluetooth, with a matching printable overlay ready to go.
• Open Board Format support: Import OBF and OBZ files from anywhere in the AAC world and use them as templates in your books.
• Online template gallery: Browse our full template library at Gallery.GoTalkNOW.com from any device, and download directly to your iPad with one tap.
We've put a lot of love into this release and we hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed building it!
Version 7.0.0
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