Free text-to-speech AAC app with both offline and Internet voices. Save and organize quick phrases, voice settings, and custom layouts you create.
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 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
• Record, import and edit sound clips for your phrases
• Create boards with any custom grid size from 1×1 to 16×16
• Save your phrases to a file, so you can backup or share with others
• Sync with other devices using a Google Drive account
• Print out your boards for a simple, low-tech solution
Misc.
• Speak individual characters, 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 support@miyanour.com or with a review. Enjoy!
Made with love by an AAC user with selective mutism. Visit my website at https://miyanour.com to help me keep providing updates. Thank you so much for your support.
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My brother is non verbal and using a AAC device given to him by his school but sometimes they forget it at school which makes communication at home that much more difficult. I’ve used several different apps that claimed they were free but then hide the needed features behind a paywall or subscription. This is totally free and 100% customizable depending on the person you want to communicate with. My brother’s face lit up when I made him a “Food” section and he saw all his favorite foods in one place. Thank you truly & definitely download this app!
Decent basic app w/ helpful features
specialappssk
This is a simple AAC app but decent in terms of options-options to type, use icons, record your own voice for speech or you can use high quality voices. You can alter the appearance somewhat by changing the number of rows and columns displayed. I haven’t tried all the features, I tested it out in Greek and I was able to add a message to a button in Greek really easily, with the keyboard I installed separately in Apple settings which it pronounced with a Greek voice I chose as well. I like being able to have both buttons in Greek and in English present on the same board, but would like to have the option IN the button during editing to pick the language so I don’t have to switch back and forth between languages from the main board, though. One caveat/possible bug- when I tried to write something in Greek via the keyboard, instead of saving it to a button, it pronounced each letter in Greek out loud instead of processing the entire word. For people who are willing to take time to customize the buttons, it is by donation, which is reasonable as you can donate what you feel is right if using the app more heavily for communication needs.
Developer Response
If you set the languages of certain categories to English and Greek, opening those categories will auto load any saved voices in those languages. That might make it easier to quickly switch languages without opening voice settings. I'll try to add other convenience features for multilingual users, too. Thank you so much for the detailed feedback. ☺️
Helpful Text-to-Speech App
Danharris41
This text-to-speech app is easy to use and works well for everyday communication. The interface is simple, and the speech output is clear and reliable. Adding a few more customization options and features would make the experience even better, but overall it's a very useful app.
Fantastic app!
SensationalSelkie
I am an AAC user and an AAC coach at a school for autistic students. This app is amazing. I LOVE that it has built in support for AAC use with texts, emails, phone calls, and web searches. It is super intuitive for me to use and highly customizable which is fantastic. I think this is a top tier AAC app, and one I’d recommend to any user who can type confidently in a heartbeat.
- Choose custom fonts for the text field and phrases.
- Choose a custom color for app menus.
- New setting per phrase to skip adding to the text field when pressed.
Contact me at support@miyanour.com if you find bugs, have suggestions, etc. Thank you so much! :)
Version 1.16.1
The developer, Samiya Noureen, 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 Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Identifiers
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Supported Features
Larger Text
Dark Interface
Differentiate Without Color Alone
Sufficient Contrast
Reduced Motion
Information
Seller
Samiya Noureen
Size
9.1 MB
Category
Utilities
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.2 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.2 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 17.2 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 14.2 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
