Digital Speech Recording Aids

Digital recording communication aids are small, portable, easy-to-use aids, which are suitable for adults and children who do not have the necessary literacy skill to use a text-based communication aid.

They require little physical input to play complete messages, but do not permit total freedom of communication since the user can only play messages that have been pre-recorded by a third party. However, these messages can be personalised using age- and gender-appropriate voices, and allows recording in any language and any regional accent. Each message is identified by a symbol, icon, picture, or text, and are therefore suitable for people without literacy or for whom a text-based communication aid is found to be too tiring.

In our experience, some Lightwriter^® users benefit or progress to using one of these aids due to tiring as either a day or disease progresses.

Examples of conditions where digital recording communication aids have proven successful are: stroke, head injury, Motor Neurone Disease (also known as Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis, or ALS), Parkinson's Disease, Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Huntington's Chorea, Learning Disability, Autism, and Cerebral Palsy.