Scene Speak

Scene Speak

By Good Karma Applications, Inc

Score: 3.33333
3.33333
From 9 Ratings

Description

Scene Speak is versatile customizable app that provides a framework on the iPad to create interactive visual scene displays and social stories. Scene Speak allows an image to be edited with active “hotspots”. A hotspot is an area of the screen that can “sound areas” that can be selected and used as a means of communication. An image can have multiple “hotspots” that can be edited to add sound, text labels or link to another visual scene. In addition, Images with text can be then can be added into “books” by theme or area of interest. Scene Speak is a wonderful communication tool for those with Autism, Aphasia, Apraxia, developmental disabilities or anyone wanting to enhance receptive language or visual memory. FEATURES INCLUDE: * ADD CUSTOM IMAGES from your home computer, the iPad camera or from the built in Internet search feature to create contextually relevant scenes. * RECORD YOUR OWN VOICE to the “sound areas” or use one of the five preloaded voices in the TTS feature. * MULTIPLE HOTSPOTS can be added to a scene. Hotspots can include: sound, text labels or can link to another scene. * CREATE SOCIAL STORIES by grouping scenes into books. * TEXT CAN BE ANIMATED by recording voice in-sync to the color change of text (text changes from black to red and back to black). * PAGES CAN BE LOCKED /unlocked as needed to prevent user from going to another page. * FILE SHARING: you can backup your saved "Books" and "VSD's" on your home computer or you can share them with a person with the same application. * BACKUP AND RESTORE VIA iCLOUD to prevent loss of created scenes or share saved information to devices on the same iTunes account. * PASSWORD PROTECTED SETTINGS MENU to prevent access to editing features and settings. How does it work? Personalized mages can be uploaded to the app. from your home computer or through an online image search. The images can then be resized and active “sound areas” can be added. The application allows both the number and size of the “sound areas” to be customized. Spoken messages can be added to the “sound areas” by using the Text-To-Speech feature, with one of five preloaded voices, or you can record your own voice to the “sound areas”. User can also add text to the sound area as a way of reinforcing receptive language acquisition. A scene can also be linked to another scene via the hotspot. This creates a unique opportunity to create a scene based communication system for those with communication delays. In addition, a scene can have text added directly to the bottom of a page. Once a visual scene is created with active “hotspots” or text, scenes can be added into “Books”. Books can be created and images grouped into the book by a specific theme or area of interest. Multiple books can be created within the book library and as many visual scenes as needed added into the “book”. For example: you may want to create a “Book” titled “My Home”. Within that book may want to include images of different rooms in the home. Within those images you can add “sound areas” to label different objects or people that are represented in those images. A bedroom scene may say, “go to bed” when the bed is touched or “read a book” when a bookcase is touched. * The app. comes preloaded with eleven generic scenes that can be edited and sound areas added. Scenes include: Kitchen Bedroom Child’s Bedroom Living room Bathroom Park Doctor’s office “What Hurts?” (Boy, girl, man, woman).

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Reviews

  • Good idea but....

    1
    By Mizarie
    I cannot get the alphabet keyboard to come up. Only the number and emoji keyboards are available.
  • One of the Best Comprehensive Apps for Special Needs

    5
    By Normal is a Dryer Setting
    I'm the parent of two children with special needs, and originally, I purchased this app for my 5 year old, who is diagnosed with Autism and Apraxia, to help him learn to use assistive technology to navigate in everyday settings. However, I've found that it's not only great for functional usage (at a fraction of the cost of apps out there that have far fewer features) but I can make detailed and personalized interactive storybooks within this app that can include my child in his favorite stories (or make up my own using personal photos). We absolutely love this app, and would recommend it to ANY parent of a small child who wishes to make creative and interactive books, as well as any individual who might have limited verbal skills. GREAT app...thank you again, Good Karma!
  • Great app for Visual Scene Display

    5
    By Slpgirl
    Having recently heard a presentation on research showing the benefits of Visual Scene Display AAC with babies, toddlers, and preschoolers (and for older kids who are functioning at that level), I was happy to find this reasonably priced app. I have found it easy to use. There are options to use your own photos or use an Internet search to find images. Images can be arranged into books. I took photos from a book and made interactive scenes for my non verbal students-- much more engaging than a traditional gridded AAC display! I am an SLP but I think this app would also be useful for special Ed teachers and parents of non-verbal and low verbal children and for professionals working in early intervention.
  • Major update problems

    1
    By SLPKatie
    I'm an SLP who uses this app in conjunction with medical staff for pain management in adults with ID. I'm currently using it on approximately 15 iPads. Following recent updates, all of my installations are broken. My sound areas are gone, my library has been cleared, and the app won't let me create new VSDs. The only thing that has fixed it is to delete the app & reinstall it, then totally reprogram it. This would be FAR easier and less time consuming if the iCloud backup actually worked, but I haven't been able to do anything with it other than lock up the app. The app used to be solid (if time-intensive to program), but the face that an update wiped all of my data and that the iCloud backup doesn't work seems absurd to me. Maybe I'm the only person having this issue, but v2.01 has been nothing but a huge headache for me. I hope that the issues I've had are going to be resolved. Until then I'll be desperately trying to reprogram as fast as possible to keep the iPads available for pain management.
  • Great App

    5
    By Apps 3 all
    Great App
  • Awesome App

    5
    By ShannonPrimer
    Thanks Good Karma for coming up with another awesome app.
  • Great customer service

    5
    By uniqueconnections
    Another great Good Karma application. The versality is awesome, it it is easy to use and customizable. My daughter spends way to much time at the doctor's office so this is her favorite room.
  • Scene Speak

    5
    By csvillars
    I love this app and found it wasn't hard to figure out the ends and outs of the app. But if you don't have wireless take the email address or web address and you can contact them via internet from a computer or laptop. There's always more than one way to reach someone if you really need the help. :-) You will find that the developer is most happy to help and also listens to their customers suggestions and ideas as well. I do know that manuals are in the works but in the mean time send an email with your questions and you will receive any help you need.
  • Poor directions

    1
    By Cindy Nankee
    This needs in app directions. The (I) info only takes you to the website and most my schools are not wireless. Directions on the website are not accurate and going between a project and online directions I lost my project. The directions to take pictures from google images did not work, I was not able to select full size nor save them to my scenes. Unless I missed it in the poor directions there appears to be no finished sample boards so I pay 9.99 and I need to put in a fair amount of time to create something before I can even get started with this. The concept is awesome, I want to take pictures and create personalized scenes but I cannot get one scene completed after more than an hour of messin around with this. For 9.99 I expect much more for money.scenes.
  • Confusing

    1
    By Luv4movies
    This app is difficult to navigate. I wish I had purchased something more functional.

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