Attainment has been making augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) tools for 25 years. Our experience is front and center in GoTalk NOW LITE, a communication app that introduces you to the flexibility, ease of use, and power of Attainment’s popular GoTalk NOW.
GoTalk NOW LITE is a fully functional augmentative communication app for those who have difficulty speaking. Create up to three personalized communication pages in this free app! GoTalk NOW LITE 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. If you need more Communication Pages or the ability to share, simply upgrade your GoTalk NOW LITE to full GoTalk NOW Features via an in-app purchase.
The new LITE offers three styles of communication pages: Standard, Express, and Scene. 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 a communication book with unique settings and up to 5 pages in length. Envision the impact of blending video, music, and jump to actions among your pages. Plus, GoTalk NOW LITE is a full-feature scanning app!
Features:
• Choose 1, 2, 4, 9, 16, 25 or 36 locations per page.
• Use images from your iPad camera, photo library, or the GoTalk Image Library.
• 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 our free text-to-speech voice.
• 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.
•In-app purchase allows for back up of communication books via Dropbox or to any Mac or PC for safekeeping.
• Ability to create multiple books with unlimited pages via in-app purchase.
• Store and share interactive templates (each including speech, video, text, and jump to links) on our online gallery via in-app purchase.
• Download and edit premade templates from Attainment’s collection on the public gallery available via in-app purchase.
• Print and save communication book layouts via PDFs.
• Access LITE with single or two-switch scanning.
Attainment is well known for top-notch customer service. Email us with questions or comments and check our website for free webinars. And yes, we're happy to talk to you on the telephone!
This free version of GoTalkNow is a great way to dip your toes into AAC. I highly recommend this to parents of non speaking children to help them get started communicating with AAC. Because this is the free version you can only make a limited amount of pages but that should not be a problem for beginners! Definitely give it a try! And then if it’s working well you can upgrade to the paid version or try other apps! Adding images and text is super easy in this app with the internet search feature! I’m surprised this app doesn’t have more hype!
Please make a version for the iPhone.
CH1N090
Where is the iPhone version of this app???
Great app to use to convert iPad into a communication device.
Un dios entre los hombres
This app is great to help turn your iPad into a communication device for children with special needs. You can add your own sound, pics, text etc to the grid selection so it can really help with day to day functions without frustration.
Crash and Freeze
Mama Of Chris
The concept is awesome. However, the app crashes on me at random points and the after action for three of my four subjects won't jump. I have requested help through the app and got an automated response saying they received my request and would get back to me within one business day but two days later no response. That is disappointing. I got this to try it with the mind to purchase but if this is how the apps are taken care of I think I'll save my money.I keep holding out hope though..... his therapists app works fine!
7.0.1:
• A brand-new Color Picker, one picker, everywhere. Two simple tabs: Swatches and Spectrum. If you used the old swatch picker, everything is right where you expect it.
• New "49 Core Words Enhanced" book added to Downloads.
• Image Library Manager gains Move to Top / Move to Bottom for quick reordering.
• Support for opening "Let's GoTalk About It" templates
• New pages inherit the current page's background color, so building a consistent book is faster.
• GoTalk NOW Lite and GoTalk Start can no longer get stuck in a state where the app has more than 5 pages.
• Various bug fixes and improvements throughout.
7.0:
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 7.0.1
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