GoTalk® Start
iPad / Medecine
Attainment has been making augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) tools for 25 years. Our experience is front and center in GoTalk Start, a flexible, easy-to-use, yet powerful communication app for people who have difficulty speaking.
As the name implies, GoTalk Start is a great way to start using your iPad for AAC. Built on the framework of Attainment’s full-featured GoTalk NOW, GoTalk Start 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. Choose from over 60 ready-to-use, high quality text-to-speech voices in 30 languages! So why is GoTalk Start less expensive than GoTalk NOW? Because GoTalk Start is limited to five Communication Pages and doesn’t offer the sharing capabilities of GoTalk NOW. If you need more Communication Pages or the ability to share, simply upgrade your GoTalk Start to full GoTalk NOW Features via an in-app purchase.
The new Start 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. How cool is it to have access to 30 different text-to-speech voices, in a variety of different languages! Plus, GoTalk Start is a full-feature scanning app!
Features:
• Choose 1, 2, 4, 9, 16, or 25 locations per page.
• Ability to create multiple books with unlimited pages via in-app purchase.
• Use images from your iPad camera, photo library, or the Imagine Symbol set.
• Search the Internet in-app for the perfect image or icon.
• Purchase SymbolStix 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.
• Access 30 different text-to-speech voices, in an assortment of different 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.
•In-app purchase allows for back up of 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 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 Start with single or two-switch scanning.
GoTalk Start participates in Apple's Volume Purchasing Program for Education in the United States.
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!
Quoi de neuf dans la dernière version ?
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!
