Provides communication for people with no speech using stored messages and typed speech.
Online Price: $330.00
A text based
communication system for Windows
Windbag
is a text based communication aid program for people with literacy skills. It
provides many ways to store and retrieve messages. It has two main screens - the
chat box and the phrase bank.
• Type and speak your messages.
• Use abbreviations.
• Predctive typing to speed up input.
• Smart context based message store.
• Keep commonly used messages near the top of the list.
• Speak from the clipboard.
• Use recorded or synthetic messages.
• Works with most text to speech systems for Windows.
• Use Windbag to read back text created in other programs.
The Windbag Chat Box
The chat box allows you to speak as you type for free conversation. It contains
a number of tools to speed up the rate of speech:
• Type in messages with abbreviation expansion and word prediction.
• Speak pre-stored texts by line, sentence or paragraph - or speak selected
text.
• Instant responses with a single key.
• 26 instant messages with two keys.
• Load and save the contents of many chat boxes for future use - ideal for
presentations.
The Windbag Phrase Bank
The phrase bank provides an easy method to speak out commonly used messages very
quickly. Messages may be in synthetic or digitised speech. A smart message
minder keeps the messages you use most frequently near the top of the list.
• Intuitive phrase bank with messages arranged by context and topic.
• Store any number of phrases.
• Select from your 3000 most commonly used phrases with only three selections.
• Most commonly used messages are automatically suggested first.
• Have common messages recorded by a friend.
• Search for the right message, by text or using your own codes.
• Leave gaps in messages to fill in as you speak.
For users who cannot use the keyboard, Windbag is compatible with all
alternative access methods. In particular, our on-screen keyboard,
The Grid, provides a very efficient
control of Windbag for switch users.