App Detail » Alexicom Elements Story Maker

Published by: Alexicom Tech LLC

iPad App - Designed for iPad

Price: $9.99
Current Version: 1.4.0
Released: March 05, 2012

What's New

• Improved user interface with larger multi-line text buffer and larger Speak, Clear, and Undo buttons
• User's home page is immediately loaded upon start-up
• Home page quick launch icon has been added to page list for easy return to user's specified home page
• Search feature has been widened to include AAC page content to locate words on AAC pages
• Dark mode display enhancements
• Optimized for iOS 15.5
• Requires iOS 9.0+

App Description

A collection of story templates for entering your own stories for retell.

Three template styles are provided: Arrows, Pages, and Swipe. The home page of each story template set includes a 5x5 grid of placeholders for 25 stories. Each story template has placeholders for eight sequential story cells.

'Arrows' story templates:
Each page provides one cell of the story with forward and back arrows on either side.
Grid size:    1 rows x 3 cols
No. pgs:     1 home page, 200 story pages

'Pages' story templates:
Each page provides one cell of the eight-cell story.
Grid size:    1 rows x 1 col
No. pgs:     1 home page, 200 story pages

'Swipe' story templates:
Each page provides a swipeable page of eight sequential story cells.
Grid size:    1 rows x 9 cols
No. pgs:     1 home page, 25 story pages

Specifications:
Age:            Any
Setting:      Social
Voice:         Male or Female TTS or recorded audio
Language: Provided TTS voice is US English but you may type text & record in any language

Features Include:
• Emphasis on Core Words
• Easy editing and customization
• Add an unlimited number of speaking, linking pages
• Camera image acquisition directly in each cell
• Access to all provided images
• Easily show, dim, or hide cells
• Dimmed cell opacity is fully adjustable
• Dimmed cells remain active or can be disabled
• 'Restore mode' brings deleted pages from the provided page set back to their original state
• iOS text-to-speech (TTS) and recorded audio
• Adjust iOS TTS voice, speech rate, pitch, and volume
• Configure different TTS voice output settings for the user's voice and the auditory preview voice (when in scanning mode)
• International language support, including right-to-left text entry
• Word prediction with a 150k word library
• Optional word learning and tracking of frequency of word use
• 1x-3x cell magnification for low vision (scanning and direct select modes)
• List of pages includes page previews and a search bar
• Undo button
• 30-day user activity log in AAC Institute's LAM format
• Data tracking with privacy toggle and recording indicator
• Data logs may be copied for printing, sharing, and PeRT analysis
• Send messages to email and SMS & MMS text via email
• Pages may be backed up to a computer with iTunes File Sharing and a USB cable
• iCloud backup may be enabled

Switch support:
• One- and two-switch scanning
• Sequential and row/column scanning
• Auditory preview
• Bluetooth and direct touch scanning
• Supports RJ Cooper, AbleNet, Therapy Box, and Inclusive Technology Bluetooth switches