Avaz vs LetMeTalk

Avaz is a picture- and text-based AAC app for people with complex communication needs to express themselves and learn. Its category-based vocabulary is available across three grades of core vocabulary, with a consistent layout and motor patterns. Keyboard prediction can correct spelling mistakes and can be set to show suggestions after a delay. Users can add words, personalize pictures, and change settings through the Settings Wizard. The Activity Dashboard and Communication Adventures offer caregivers activity ideas, strategies, and modeling training. Avaz Analytics presents communication development in graphs and charts for therapists. Dropbox can be linked to back up and sync vocabulary across devices; users can also import or export pages to share with other Avaz users. The app provides speech output and supports touch, switch, and eye-gaze access on iOS and Android, in multiple languages. Avaz also offers FreeSpeech for English grammar practice using picture tiles, and Reader, which supports reading with hints and help for learners including children with dyslexia and first-generation English speakers. Avaz AAC – English costs $149.99, paid once and includes a free 2-week trial.

LetMeTalk is a free AAC talker app for arranging images into sentences and speaking the resulting messages. Its library contains more than 9,000 ARASAAC images. Users can create unlimited categories, add images, and take new photos with a device camera. Vocabulary profiles can be saved, kept in multiples on one device, switched between, and shared with other devices. The listing names support for English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Chinese, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Arabic, Russian, Polish, Bulgarian, Romanian, Galician, Catalan, and Basque. LetMeTalk can work without an internet connection or mobile contract. It is described as suitable for people with conditions including autism spectrum disorder, aphasia, speech apraxia, articulation or phonological disorder, ALS, MND, cerebral palsy, and Down syndrome. The app is listed for Android and iOS, but the Android version was removed from Google Play on December 15, 2021. Apple’s listing says privacy-practice details have not been provided.