For people with aphasia and the families around them
A speech app for stroke patients that practices without grading
A speech app for stroke patients should never make a hard day worse. Practice Out Loud plays a phrase, records a try and plays it back, with no score, no timer and a gentle goal of ten phrases a day, and the exercises a therapist assigns appear in the same place.
What is already built
Practice Out Loud
Hear it, record a try, hear the recording, with no grading ever and a gentle goal of ten phrases a day.
Where it lives: Practice page · Read how it works
Exercises from the therapist
Speech, physical and occupational therapists assign exercises with presets in their discipline's language; they appear on the patient's Practice page as encouragement.
Where it lives: The care-team dashboard, Assign exercise · Read how it works
Games, sing-along and music
Memory Match, Word Match and Tic Tac Toe with no timers or losing streaks, sing-along songs, the family's own music in the background, and Word Friends, a turn-based word game played by mail.
Where it lives: Games and Play page · Read how it works
Learn: short lessons
Courses of a few minutes on stroke and aphasia, read aloud and marked complete as they go.
Where it lives: Learn page · Read how it works
Today: practice with no grading, the therapist's exercises, games with no losing streaks and read-aloud lessons.
How it works
Create a free account: your name, email, a password and who the app is for (yourself, someone you care for, a patient, or an organization).
The guided setup takes four short steps: who the app is for and the condition mode, text and button sizes, a voice and the first people, then a review.
Tap any phrase on Communicate to say it out loud; invite family with a personal link and give each clinician or professional a code from the Care Team page.
Questions people ask
Is it free to start?
Yes. Free is where everyone starts, and communicating is never behind a paywall: tap to speak, the phrase boards, the sentence builder, Letters, the Phrase Library, lessons, Games and Play, the emergency screen, the Emergency Plan Card and the built-in voice. Free also invites 2 family members to the Family and Friends Feed. The Pricing page shows the plans side by side.
What happens after I sign up?
Sign up asks for your name, email and a password, and who the app is for. Then the guided setup takes four short steps: who the app is for and the condition mode, text and button sizes, a voice and the first people, then a review. Entering the patient's name and date of birth pins the two phrases hospitals ask for constantly.
Who assigns the exercises?
A speech, physical or occupational therapist on the care team, from the dashboard, with presets in their discipline's language and a preview of what the family will see.
Does it speak for a slurred or soft voice?
Yes. Tap-to-speak says the phrase in a clear built-in voice, or in the patient's own cloned voice from a short recording, at the volume the family sets in Settings.