Proloquo2Go - AAC for iPhone and iPod Touch

By Ricky Buchanan • January 26, 2009

AssistiveWare and Sennott Consulting have announced that they are working on a groundbreaking Alternative & Augmentative Communication (AAC) program for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch called Proloquo2Go™. It’s expected to ship by the end of March, 2009.

Features listed on the Proloquo2Go website:

Communication system designed from the ground up optimized for the iPhone/iPod touch
Built-in text-to-speech (male, female and child voices)
Picture and text based communication
Over 6000 symbols plus you can easily add your own pictures
Easy to use, yet with powerful customization options
Many innovative features to facilitate and speed up your communication

No cost has been released yet, but I would expect that even with the cost of an iPod Touch included this should make a very competitively priced AAC system. A Cyrano Communicator, for example, costs US$1399 and runs on a small pocket PC with a touchscreen which is very roughly similar to an iPod Touch or iPhone. Saltillo’s ChatPC, running on a touchscreen palm sized PC runnind Windows Mobile, starts from US$2395. Dynavox’s Palmtop3 costs US$5245 and also runs on a touchscreen palm sized PC running Windows Mobile.

Those who are interested can leave their details on the website and will be notified when Proloquo2Go is available. Samuel Sennott has also posted on his blog that there will be presentations on Proloquo2Go at the ATIA conference this week. See his post for further details.

Website: Proloquo2Go

- Ricky Buchanan

Categories: AAC, Educators, New Software, Supporters, Users, iPhone/iPod Touch/iTouch
Tags: AAC, alternative communication, assisted communication, augmentative communication, communication aid, complex communication needs, computer voice, itouch, non-verbal, text speak, voice output

About the Author

Ricky Buchanan

Ricky Buchanan is 34 years old and the founder and main writer for ATMac. She's bedridden with severe CFS/ME or perhaps a primary mitochondrial disorder - the doctors are not sure. When she's not working on ATMac or her other websites she composes music, listens to audio books, does other disability advocacy, watches TV with her flatmate, and enjoys her cat.

6 Comments For “Proloquo2Go - AAC for iPhone and iPod Touch”

atmacjournal (Ricky Buchanan) Jan 26th, 2009 at 3:17 am

New ATMac post: Proloquo2Go - AAC for iPhone and iPod Touch http://is.gd/hdYq an exciting announcement for the AAC community!
rickybuchanan (Ricky Buchanan) Jan 26th, 2009 at 3:24 am

@irasocol Thanks. Does what I’ve put in the article http://is.gd/hdYq sound right to you?
atmacjournal (Ricky Buchanan) Jan 26th, 2009 at 3:50 am

New ATMac post: Proloquo2Go - AAC for iPhone and iPod Touch http://tinyurl.com/buge6b
toucancomputing (Toucan) Mar 5th, 2009 at 9:41 am

Toucan thinks ATMac’s developments in Assistive Communication systems for the iPhone/Touch look very promising: http://tinyurl.com/d9ctoy
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[...] at an introductory price of US$149, rising to US$199 after several weeks. As we speculated in our previous article about Proloquo2Go, this is just a fraction of the price of similar AAC solutions - even taking into account the cost [...]
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