In fact, this is 3 differents applications:

• TouchChat AAC (for iPhone and iPod Touch)
• TouchChat AAC HD (for iPad)
• TouchChat HD AAC with WordPower (for iPad)

TouchChat HD is a full featured communication solution for individuals who have difficulty using their natural voice. TouchChat is designed for individuals with Autism, Down Syndrome, ALS, apraxia, stroke, or other conditions that affect a person’s ability to use natural speech.

TouchChat is a full featured communication application for iPod/iPad technology. TouchChat fits into the product category of Augmentative Communication (AAC) devices. AAC devices allow individuals who cannot speak to communicate by spelling or selecting icons from a visual display. Words, phrases and messages are spoken with a built-in voice synthesizer or by playing back a recorded message. Five synthesized Acapela English and American voices are available, allowing you to choose a voice that meets your own personality. In order to communicate silently in noisy environments, TouchChat also has a unique feature whereby one can simply tilt the device to make the message expand to fill the entire screen in large letters.

There is 4 predefined Vocabulary Set: VocabPC, MultiChat-15, Primary and Spelling. Each page set targets individuals with different communication needs. Additional page sets including WordPower and Essence are available as in-app purchases.

TouchChat HD AAC with WordPower is a bundled version with the WordPower series of AAC vocabularies designed by Nancy Inman.

More information on the Silver Kite WebPage: http://www.silver-kite.com/touchchat

I’m glad to welcome a new customer using Acapela TTS for iPhone and ipad: News Alarm HD from Web Comms

News Alarm is an iPhone app that can read out RSS news feeds, and comes packed with a directory of hundreds of feeds including CNN, Fox and BBC.

This app can do much more than read the news, it can also read the calendar events from the iPhone calendar, speak the time, read a custom phrase or play an alarm sound.

A great feature of this app is the integration of Acapela TTS. Indeed, with our high quality voices, you can performs a list of actions when the alarm goes off.  You build up a list of actions, which can be re-odered, edited and deleted. You can choose from the following actions:

• Read from a news feed
• Read calendar events
• Speak the time
• Speak a custom phrase
• An alarm sound

You can play an alarm at any time on the alarms screen – so you can instantly keep up to date with the latest news.

This application is very complete.

You will find more information about News Alarm HD on their website: http://www.newsalarmapp.com/

vBookz 1.0 was an extraordinary ebook reader for iPad that actually reads for you.

Now, vBookz team have working hard to be able to release the 2.0 version, still available for iPad, but also for iPhone and iPod Touch!

iPad screenshots:

iPhone/iPod Touch Screenshots

With vBookz, you can read a book for free or, if you wish to hear vBookz speech abilities in one of the following foreign languages, vBookz  offers you the ability to buy this language by using the in-app purchase option.

Indeed, vBookz integrate 14 Acapela languages (22 voices).

You can download and listen until 30,000 free ebooks!!!

Developers told us that they will add a lot of new great features in the following months.

You can read some review on gizmodo and periVisioN

Creaceed, the belgian company specialized in Mac OS and iOS products (Vocalia, Prizmo) have finally released their new application: Prizmo for iPhone. This is an all-in-one scanning and OCR application with a very large number of wonderful features: Business cards or bills scanning and processing, Whiteboards capture, optical character recognition (OCR) of texts, translation, image processing and of course … Text to Speech.

This product is available on AppStore for $9.99. Acapela Text-to-Speech voices are available in inAppPurchase for $2.99.

We are glad to welcome 2 new customer apps into our gallery.

Assistive Chat

Assistive Chat is a affordable AAC App in English for iPad, catered to people with difficulty in speech.

Major features are

• Word Prediction to minimize the keystrokes required
• Adaptive learning of new vocabulary
• Portrait or landscape
• and of course, 3 great Acapela English Voices

Joggers and Joggers Black

Joggers (and the “black” version Joggers Black), are 2 useful apps for sport lovers.

Uses GPS to record and analyze your course during outside sport activity.
During the session, JOGGERS can display:
- Chronometer
- Instant and medium speed + evolution of instant speed
- Calorie consumption
- Covered distance
- Course displayed on a map + Friends present in the area
- …

Then your sessions are saved on our website www.joggers-online.com so you can consult, analyse and share them.

You can purchage French or English Acapela voice pack by inAppPurchase, to extend the functionality of Joggers and transform this apps into a personal coach.