Avaz FreeSpeech app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Avaz, Inc.
First release : 08 Feb 2016
App size: 519.04 Mb
FreeSpeech helps anyone with a language impairment practice and develop grammar skills! Drag and rearrange picture tiles, and FreeSpeech will convert them into a perfectly grammatical English sentence.
Explore how tenses, sentence forms, parts of speech, and other grammatical properties change the structure of English -- and its all visual!
FreeSpeech is the perfect app for anyone who is learning the English language - whether you are
- A person with special needs, such as autism, dyslexia and hearing impairments
- An ELL student, trying to make sense of English grammar
- Someone who loves languages and likes to explore them!
Developed by an interdisciplinary team including SLPs, educators, and researchers with over 100 years of collective experience, FreeSpeech is the most advanced language learning technology currently on the App Store. The technology behind FreeSpeech was the subject of a TED talk by its creator Ajit Narayanan which has been viewed more than one million times. The development of FreeSpeech, combining engineering with generative linguistics, earned the team recognition as one of the worlds Top 35 Innovators from MIT Technology Review. AS SEEN ON TED BY 1M+ VIEWERS: http://go.ted.com/CW6u
"A powerful new app designed to help children of all learning levels and language abilities develop grammatically correct sentences... A welcome addition for anyone with young writers that struggle with arranging sentences or who have a language impairment that makes it frustrating to communicate."
- SmartAppsForKids
FreeSpeech is unique because its the only app in the world that predicts grammar. You can throw a bunch of picture tiles at it, and the app will automatically figure out a grammatically correct sentence from them.
- Its possible to manipulate words, tenses and structure as if you were manipulating building blocks.
- The app lets teachers and learners model/recast/contrast various grammar rules pictorially, all the while speaking out correct English.
- A teacher or therapist can configure how much prediction FreeSpeech does, and fade away its capabilities as a student develops confidence.
FreeSpeech is based on solid research, and builds language by:
- EXPANDING: Prompting users with questions to expand their sentences;
- SCAFFOLDING: Intelligently predicting words that they are likely to use;
- CONTRASTING: Visually modeling tense and sentence modifiers;
- RECASTING: Automatically inserting prepositions and articles as needed; and
- ERRORLESS MODELING: Automatically predicting grammar, to assemble a map of pictures into a grammatically correct English sentence.
Scientific trials validating the efficacy of FreeSpeech have been presented at leading conferences in linguistics and special education.
FreeSpeech features more than 2,000 symbols from Symbolstix, and is ideally suited to use alongside other AAC, articulation and education apps that use these lovely symbols. Additionally, you can customize the vocabulary with 20,000+ Symbolstix symbols.
Download FreeSpeech & learn English language skills today!
Please email us at [email protected] with any comments, questions or suggestions about FreeSpeech.
*Pricing plan - Auto Renewable Subscription*
1 month auto renewing - 9.99 USD
6 months auto renewing - 59.99 USD
1 year auto renewing - 99.99 USD
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-Any unused portion of the free trial period will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription
Symbols used in this app are © 2016 SymbolStix LLC.
Latest reviews of Avaz FreeSpeech app for iPhone and iPad
Ive been testing this app out for my developmentally delayed twins. After spending a bit of time with it, however, I already found myself getting frustrated. A few tweaks is all it really needs. 1) Access to system voices. Im using the high quality Alex voice as my main system voice and Im sorely missing it here. Im not sure why I only get four voices here (2 of which have Irish/British English accents). 2) When browsing more words when you tap on an icon it pops up briefly but nothing happens. Looking through this with my kids it would be great if it would actually trigger the audio file instead of having to place it in the vocabulary builder first. 3) Being able to select and change a word once placed. Example: I just placed the word foo but want it changed to feet. I have to go back to more words, then the category, then the subcategory. It would be great if I could tap the icon, have the box selected, and then see similar words on the left. 4) Continued on #3. Scrolling on suggestions. The 10 icons on the left are quite limited. Again having the ability to scroll through more possible word choices would minimize how frequently I need to dig through more words. Otherwise Im impressed and feel its worth the $14 (its not the $10 as advertised and I suspect that was pasted from the US store).
I bought this because I am working with a student that is more enthusiastic to study when using a tablet. He needs special attention. I like the app so far but would be so excited to see it have an option where we can touch the cards in the more words area and have them spoken before the page changes. That way it gives the student a chance to read and hear the word before choosing it to go into the flowchart. Once the student is calm enough to read we can then toggle it off to where the student reads before choosing.
Highly recommend the app for anyone with learning disabilities or any kid trying to learn English language Even normal kids who want to perfect the sentence formation and grammar Blown away what this app can do
This is gorgeously executed and extremely user friendly. There are so many uses for an application like this. Been looking forward to a system like this for a long time. Thank you.
Language structure made visual... What a wonderful way to help kids really "see" language structure. Kids are prompted through in the most intuitive way, and with a touch of a button they can change the sentence theyve created to past tense, future tense, a negative or a question. Perfect for visual learners and kids with autism. So happy to have this to support my students.