Text to Speech‪!‬ 4+

I am so happy and grateful for coming across this app. I’m a tracheotomy patient and I suffer from a vocal cord paralysis. It has been a very difficult 4 years trying to verbally communicate with people. During the pandemic I have really been having a hard time being understood because my mouth is covered. I ran across this app yesterday and instantly started playing around with it after I downloaded it onto my phone. This app has made it easy for me to send messages to my people without them having to read multiple texts from me. I’m going to keep playing around with it to learn more. I used it at a restaurant to place an order as well. Yes, simple things like that has been very difficult, this app gives me hope….thank you.

I have been searching for an app to use for when I go nonverbal, and this one can be pretty useful. It has quite a few voices to choose from and I like that it isn’t limited with what you can say. I have been having an issue though with my saved/favorited phrases.

When I search for a phrase, I’m not able to select and play it after searching. I can only play the phrases I have saved if I scroll to find them from the entire list. This kind of defeats the purpose of being able to search for phrases. I’m unsure if this is a glitch or a design flaw.
It would also be really helpful to be able to create categories for saved phrases. I know this is not necessarily intended to be an AAC app, but it would be a perfect free alternative for people like me if those features were added.

This app was a lifesaver!
I had a major jaw surgery and couldn’t talk for 3 weeks. I downloaded this app the second day in the hospital and it made things so much easier than texting and writing notes, especially when it was hard to get my family’s attention without talking or when they couldn’t read a note because they were driving or something.
I didn’t really experiment with the different voices, but I loved that I could favorite phrases that I needed to use frequently.
Now that I can talk again, I don’t really need to do any text to speech stuff, but this app and protein drinks got me through surgery recovery. I would definitely recommend to anyone who can’t talk for any reason.