#text to speech user

[selectivechaos]

“i miss you”

aac users are in the room with you.

address us. don’t address other people.

don’t talk about us. don’t talk around us. don’t talk through us.

don’t say we’re not communicating when we are.

don’t laugh at us and pretend we’re not there.

one of the worst things someone has said to me is: “i miss you” as i was standing right there, using tts. and yeah there was other stuff going on; anxiety makes it hard to communicate and be present in the moment, so i get why they would miss my non-anxious self.

but really, it’s fucked up how they treat us like we’re not even there, when we are. even if not communicating, we exist. acknowledge us. 🌹🌹

[autisticdreamdrop]

yes yes the answer is yes! we are a mid-high support needs disabled autistic polyfragmented DID system with alters with a wide range of vebralness. a lot of us use forms of AACs or TTS in out of inner world / headspace and in real life. if you think you need it, just use it. it's stressful at first, but nonverbal communication is communication and it's a valid way to communicate. 🧩 - The Dreamdrop System

[dreamdropsystem]

AACs are important for autistics that deal with communication issues. When your mouth parts don't work (verbal loss/ nonspeaking, semispeaking, selectively mute etc) or hell, you don't want to use verbal communication. And that's valid too.

There are plenty of auties that use both verbal and nonverbal communication. There are plenty of auties that prefer nonverbal communication. And that's okay.

we have semiverbal/speaking and nonverbal/speaking alters, alters who have verbal loss. a little too a lot.

in our life we've been forced to be verbal and that's not okay. our system is full of AAC users.

This is our oc Moon (which we wanna change their name) they're an AAC user and uses a wide range of nonverbal communication: communication cards, a tablet with an AAC app, written communication, printed out communication board, and TTS (text to speech). we project oh them. we mainly use text to speech and AAC apps - Honeylily

please remember it's okay to use AACs

[elasmobranch-enthusiast]

i just wanted to let everyone know about this very simple, free, text to speech aac app. it’s called simple aac.

it’s just text to speech, no buttons or symbols. i know that won’t work for everyone, but hopefully someone finds it useful. i know i appreciate having an aac app on my phone that gives me a reliable way to communicate without having to bring my heavy ipad with me at all times. there’s even a little sentence about trans rights, which i know a lot of us appreciate 🏳️‍⚧️

hope this can help someone!

edit: i don’t know if this is for androids, i use ios

[unpretty]

every time i try to do something involving text-to-speech on my ipad i get pissy all over again

"just activate voiceover! :)" says the app's official faq. okay first of all that completely changes the control scheme of the device second of all it sounds like absolute dogshit so consider the merits of fucking right off.

[petrichoremojis]

TTS/Text to speech user or someone using TTS please?

[ID: A drawing of a grey keyboard, with a red arrow pointing from it to a speech bubble. End ID]

[ID: A drawing of a yellow person holding a keyboard. A red arrow points from their keyboard to a speech bubble above them. End ID]

Text-to-speech and TTS user.

[sicksadstar]

this user wants to use their AACs more

[spooksforsammy]

Anyone have recommendations for text to speech? Dont want spend money yet but want good app so can actually test it out. See so many but don’t just wanna pick one and not like it and then completely give up with text to speech

[plushies-and-petrichor]

I recently went to FanExpo New Orleans, and I had one of the most liberating and validating experiences I've ever had.

On the very last day of the con I had completely lost my voice..I couldn't even manage a whisper. Even tho I wasn't emotionally or mentally ready to do so, I used my text to speech app on my tablet and communicated via AAC throughout the entire day.

It was the first time I'd EVER done that.

What blew me away was the reaction I got. Every single person that encountered me using my AAC immediately registered what was happening and responded so positively. A few began using sign language with me in addition to verbal speech and one even had a conversation with me about my AAC and being autistic.

That was the first time in my life that I've ever been in public without masking. I felt so safe and seen and validated and I never dreamt I could be somewhere like FanExpo, with literally thousands of people, and still feel comfortable enough to drop my mask and be visibly autistic.

I'm genuinely considering using AAC more after that experience and I'm starting to see jus how much as mask in my day to day life. It was eye opening in a way I didn't expect.

[farragoofwires]

don' dweeblog

shocking literally no one shinigami eyes is catching urls brought to my dashboard by someone reblogging......l@rk@ndk@tyd!d.

[autistic-zukoao3]

I often lose my speech, so I have two different apps on my phone to help with that. One is an AAC board with pictures, and the other is text to speech. I haven't used the AAC board one enough to give a review, but I have for my text to speech.

App Name: Tell Me

Location: Google Playstore (unsure if on Apple)

Price: Free

Rating: 4/5

This is the screen you see upon opening the app. You can change the pitch, volume, and speed of the voice right off the bat.

If you tap the three lines in the top left corner it brings you to Preset Text, where you can create and save sentences/words

So far I haven't reached a limit, so I'm not sure how many you can save.

When I was working, this is something I used pretty often because I would lose my speech several times a day. Sometimes I just would not be able to talk with my mouth the entire day, so this app was vital.

Now, onto the few issues I have with the app:

The voice option in settings (which is accessed via the three dots in the top right corner on the main screen) is a bit hard to figure out. Clicking it brings you to your phone's text to speech settings, and from there you edit the voice to one you feel best suits you. That all took me about 30 minutes to figure out.

The dark mode is fine, but the text colour options don't mesh well with dark mode. It makes my eyes strain, no matter what colour I use. So, I keep it on light mode because the text meshes well with it. But if light mode is too bright, then you may have issues.

Overall, I do really like this app. I've had it for about five years, though today is the first time I've actually messed with the settings and changed the voice. I've had to use it quite a few times, and it's helped a lot, though often people would try and talk over it to demand I verbally explain what's happening (mainly my manager at where I used to work, who knew full well I lost speech and used this app to communicate) but that's not the app's fault, it's ableism.

[selectivechaos]

“you have to understand that this is my voice or you’ll never take anything i say seriously.”

(am part time aac-user. am speaking. do not have experiences of full-time aac user.)

wanted to talk about tone and understanding aac. about how they detach aac voice as separate from us.

⚠️ tw ableism, especially against aac users.

this is what i said to someone who always has snide comments to make on my text-to-speech voice. for context, used to be able to use body voice around people live with. now it is mute-situation but can use aac voice with them.

it’s always:

“robot voice”

“oh it has a funny accent”. so let’s focus on that rather than what you actually said.

“it mispronounced / made a typo on this word” so i’m going to disregard everything else you said.

“you know this doesn’t count as communicating”

“you’re always looking at a screen”

longer post 🌹🌹

but this particular time it was a complete disregard not only of what i was saying, but of my emotions:

“you sound angry. or, at least, the recorded voice sounds angry”.

what did you mean by that? what were you implying?

truth is, my aac lacks tone. don’t think can use it with body voice that much either. so people often have to look for certain words (swear words) to indicate tone. sometimes it is the only reason i use them.

but it still a problem. need to solve because another person i live with is autistic and has asked me for tone indicators before. don’t find it as easy as when making posts (have more time to think when edit post. think “what do i really mean here? what tone am i using? is this genuine, positive, sarcasm etc.)

harder when typing out fast. harder when rush of emotion and want to communicate it fast. the same thing that a non-aac user can get out with a rush of words and emotional tone, i have to sort into words and type out.

do try though. and that’s why it’s important people know that tone indicators don’t always have to be formatted like with the forward slash and single word or letter.

you can put “genuinely” and embed kin sentence, rather than “/ gen” and it still counts as tone indicator. (sometimes it is a problem because people who are using sarcasm mag employ the word “genuinely” to add to their sarcasm.)

this post went in different direction. main point stands that things like being understood and being taken seriously, are sometimes way harder with aac.

and that you should always listen to aac users.

respect our voices as our own.

respect aac as valid communication.

respect and listen to what we are communicating.

🌹🌹

[autisticdreamdrop]

goals!! AAC + TTS user friendship

credit: Drawn To AAC

[dreamdropsystem]

we love you AAC users. we love you part time AAC users. we love you full time AAC users. we love you TTS users. we love you part time TTS users. we love you full time TTS users.

[mirrorhouse]

i actually hate this whole AI voice cloning thing. even when people are ‘just’ using it for funny jokes w/ famous people— making their voice say things they obviously never said/never will say— it still gives me a really really bad feeling, just like deepfakes/AI face replacement does. and the more these AI models are used and learn, the harder it becomes to tell what’s real and what isn’t

[xemboy]

Radqueers/PRATs/proshippers/pro-contact harmful paras dni challenge /srs