#typingtalk

[arlyonit]

I've set up my AAC so that I can play elevator music while I'm typing to fill the empty space:

[Id: a screenshot of a tablet screen. It has split screen active: the top shows a 11 by 7 Typing Talk home board. The bottom shows "girl from petaluma" paused, on the app musicolet. End id]

I'm gonna see if this setup discourages people from trying to guess what I'm going to say while I'm typing. Typing talk has an option to duck audio from other sources so the words can be heard and I've used the in-built equaliser in musicolet to reduce the music volume a bit, so this setup should work quite well. I don't really want to have to repeatedly tell people over and over to stfu so I've decided to see if I can use some phycology so I don't have to. I press play to indicate I have something to say, and pause it when I'm done. I chose elevator music bc 1) it already indicates waiting and 2) I think it's funny. I likely won't use it with strangers yet as I'm still quite anxious about using aac with them but I think it'll help with one of my friends who interrupts me (not malicious, she wants to be helpful and has memory issues so she forgets I ask her not to).

It won't work with my gf sadly, the song gets stuck in her head, but we're working on ways to indicate I'm typing/done that she can pick up on and that feel better for me.

[itsharkx]

this is me yapping about how much i love cboard after only really using TypingTalk

cboard lets you put your phone/tablet horizontal while still having the speach box at the top with TypingTalk this isn't possible the speach box goes to the side of the screen

i benefit alot from the simpler style i stuggled alot with finding things on typingtalk because of how i had to set it up in order for everything to fit on my phone but even when i had cboard on my phone not tablet it was was so much easier to find things especially being horizontal

i like how the speach box still keeps the symbols with the word it doesn't actually benefit me in anyway i just like it lol

i can make it so only the symbols appear and not the word while still speaking the word without having to have it on all the buttons i like a mixture depending what the word is and how well i can understand the symbol on its own and on typingtalk its either all or nothing

i think TypingTalk was great for introducing me to high tech aac! it taught me how i like boards set up which made setting up cboard way easier than if it were my first time :)

note: this isn't anything against TypingTalk mainly just saying the differences that i prefer! not every aac platform will be for everyone some will love TypingTalk while cboard doesn't work for them or they dont like either and use something else! for me i think Cboards my best free option ! :D

[talkorsomething]

Ough... typingtalk correctly identifies sherpa tts & it's voice variants, but weavechat can't find the languages at all. I don't want to have to send another email, but for voices i ... might like better ......

(Well, a really huge thing is that they change inflection with punctuation. Revolutionary! ... for me, usually using rhvoice, anyways.)

[arlyonit]

I'm having a lot of fun

[arlyonit]

I've never had steak in my entire life. I didn't even know there were types of steak.

Behold, my steak types on my beef tile.

Steak symbols by @cytochrome-symbolz & @dustyaacsymbols. Thank you for introducing me to steak types.

[arlyonit]

TypingTalk has a new update but the bit i wanna talk about right now is the new 'alert sound' button and that i discovered a masterpiece called "rock'n'meep":

[Id: a screen recording of a tablet screen, with TypingTalk open. The 'alert sound' button is pressed, and a repeating loop of "rock n meep" is played, where rock music is played, periodically interrupted by the "meep" sound of an American woodcock bird. The phrase "I'm having a great time" is being spelled out into the sentance bar at the top of the screen via the pressing of buttons on the screen that have various words on them, and once the 'play' button is pressed the "rock n meep" stops playing and the sentence typed out is said aloud as the text typed in the sentence bar dissappears. End id]

I need to tweak it a bit but I'm genuinely giddy rn this is amazing.

[arlyonit]

I turned off the words on my aac tiles and honestly it's so much better.

Idk if it's faster but it is better.

Got it set up so my keyboard can chill out in the empty space (so it doesn't mess with my board acess).

Feel free to ask me about it I'm bored :)

[arlyonit]

You can now add audio to typingtalk phrases!!! And you can add it to the choices too, individually!