SelectSpeak: AAC Talker

Give them a voice that sounds like their own. SelectSpeak is a free AAC app — augmentative and alternative communication — for autistic, non-verbal and speech-delayed children and adults. Tap picture symbols or type to build a sentence and hear it spoken aloud.

Also built for apraxia of speech, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, stroke and ALS — first words to full conversations.

Fully available in English and Spanish. No ads, ever. We don't sell your data.

🗣️ A VOICE THAT SOUNDS LIKE THEM

Record a short sample and SelectSpeak builds a matching voice on the device. It speaks anything you write, not a fixed list of phrases, and the sample stays there. One voice is free — no per-word charges. A built-in keyboard is there for anyone who spells.

👂 AAC MODELING THAT LISTENS WITH YOU

Modeling is how AAC is learned — and it's hard while holding a book, a device, and a child's attention.

Turn on Voice Modeling and the app listens while you read aloud, lighting up each word on the grid as you say it. Hands-free and silent — no beeps, nothing talking over the story.

🎨 MAKE THE BOARD THEIRS

Start from ready-made core-word boards, then change anything — pictures, colors, button size and shape, text, layout, folders. Add your own photos, or draw a symbol yourself.

More than 3,300 symbols drawn for SelectSpeak sit alongside the open Mulberry library and Noto emoji. When the open sets miss an everyday word, we draw it.

On tablets, Fast Fill lays out a board in minutes: sweep across the cells you want, then type, tap, or say each word — each drops into the next cell in order.

🎬 VIDEO ON A BUTTON

Put a clip from YouTube or your camera roll on any button. One tap plays that moment full-screen, then returns to the board — made for gestalt language processors and the scripts that matter.

♿ SWITCHES THAT COST A FEW DOLLARS

Pair any Bluetooth button — an ordinary camera shutter remote will do — and scan and select across the grid. No proprietary AAC hardware.

Motor planning keeps each word in the same place, found by muscle memory rather than by reading.

🌍 COMMUNITY BOARDS

Install AAC boards other families and therapists have built, and remix them for your learner.

👩‍⚕️ FOR SPEECH THERAPISTS AND TEACHERS

Join a learner's board from anywhere and tap words on it live — each highlights on their device as you choose it, across the table or across the country. One to one, or a whole classroom.

Build and edit a learner's board remotely, keep it as a draft, and push it when it's ready. Follow vocabulary growth, pull reports, and run your speech therapy caseload from the web dashboard.

Verified SLPs get a free lifetime license — apply in the app with your ASHA number.

WHAT'S FREE, SAID PLAINLY

We would rather tell you now than have you find out later.

Free gives you one full-size AAC board, up to 15 by 15 — a real board, not a locked demo, yours to customize — no time limit, no ads. It includes voice cloning with one voice, Voice Modeling, switch access, type-to-speak, recording your own words, local backup, and every ready-made board to install.

Premium adds more boards, folders and pages, unlimited voices, the symbol library, and grid and audio tools.

Premium+ adds remote modeling and classroom sessions, remote board editing, the therapist dashboard, publishing boards to the community, word prediction, and optional cloud sync across two devices.

Both paid tiers have a 30-day free trial. Cancel any time before it ends and you won't be charged.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN

Voice cloning and speech recognition run on the device, so the board keeps working with no signal — at the park, on the bus, in a school with bad wifi. Cloud sync is a choice; you decide what leaves the device.

Built by one independent developer, for the families who need it.

Download SelectSpeak free. Your voice, your way.

Questions or feedback? support@selectspeak.com