Features
Spoken has many unique and powerful features that make it stand out from other AAC offerings. Looking for something in particular? This is a comprehensive list of everything Spoken currently has to offer.
Predictions
Spoken leverages AI to offer predictive text that can guess the words you want to say. It learns from your speech patterns and gives better suggestions the more you use it.
- Personalized Predictions: You can teach Spoken basic information about yourself, such as the names of the people and places you interact with the most so that it will begin suggesting those names.
- Contextual Predictions: Spoken can adapt its suggestions to your location — if you're somewhere like a restaurant or hospital, it will provide more relevant predictions for those contexts. For example, words like “appetizers,” “dessert,” and “drinks” are more likely to appear when you visit a restaurant if this feature is enabled in settings.
- Add Words: Although Spoken will naturally learn any words you type repeatedly, you can also directly add them to predictions with the Add Words option in settings. By default, Spoken already knows over 60,000 words.
Communication
Beyond next-word predictions, Spoken offers three additional methods of input: typing, writing, and drawing. All three inputs interact with the predictions to make entering text more intuitive.
Typing: Conventional text-to-speech functionality. The app’s predictive text feature will assist you by guessing the completed word, speeding up the communication process.
Writing: Spoken features a canvas for handwriting, which it can read out loud. This input is ideal if you can't type very quickly.
Drawing: Spoken recognizes simple drawings and translates them into words, which is particularly useful if you have difficulty recalling the names of objects.
Saved Phrases
Once you've written something, you can also save it for later use in the easily accessible saved phrases menu.
Saved phrases can be reordered so your most important phrases are always on top.
Natural-Sounding Voices
Spoken offers a wide selection of natural-sounding voices covering a variety of accents and identities. The pitch, speed, and volume of all voices can be customized to better reflect individual users.
The Attention Button
Spoken's attention button allows users to alert caregivers or other listeners with a single tap. This can be extremely useful in emergency situations, or just for grabbing someone's attention, as the name implies. The button will make the device's flashlight blink and play a short noise, both of which can be customized from the settings menu.
By holding down on the speak button, you can select "Alert & Speak", which will perform both actions back-to-back. This can be made the default behavior of the speak button in settings so that the alert always plays before speaking.
Symbol Library
Spoken features a large and growing library of icons that are paired with its word predictions to make it faster for users to locate the words they need. Each icon in the library is carefully designed to help users easily grasp the meaning of the words they represent.
Accessibility Features
Spoken comes with additional accessibility features for users who might need them.
- Large Print
- Dark Mode
- Word Dividers
Other
- Share: Quickly send what you've written in Spoken as text or audio via email, instant messages, social media, and more.
- Show Large: Display your message at full screen for showing to someone else, especially in high noise environments
- Block Words: Choose words that you don't want to appear in your predictions
About Spoken
Spoken is an app that helps people with aphasia, nonverbal autism, and other speech and language disorders.