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Next-generation augmentative and alternative communication

A voice engineered
to stay yours.

State-of-the-art text-to-speech, deep personalisation and on-device memory, wrapped in an interface anyone can use on their hardest day. Simplified on the surface. Complex in the architecture.

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  • On-device privacy
  • Your own voice
  • 9 integrated tools
  • Every screen size
Speak Freely live: a typed sentence with a spell-check correction, next-word predictions, usage-ranked quick words and phrases, locked essentials, and a keyword search that found 30 matching phrases.
Speak n Go on a phone: searching 'drink' returns phrases with synonym matches such as tea, juice and wine highlighted.

Why AAC matters

Losing your voice is more common
than almost anyone realises.

AAC is not a niche. It is for the singer on vocal rest, the teacher with strained cords, the patient recovering from surgery, and the person whose speech is changing for good. The numbers say it plainly.

Australia, where we build

0M Australians live with a communication disability ABS Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers
0K+ Australians are living with the effects of stroke, around 140,000 with aphasia, roughly 1 in 3 survivors Stroke Foundation
0/day Australians are diagnosed with MND every day, and two die from it. Around 2,800 live with it right now MND Australia · FightMND
0K head injury hospital admissions in a single year, one every 4 minutes. Many affect speech and language AIHW, 2020–21
0 Australians diagnosed with head and neck cancer each year, many facing voice and speech changes Cancer Australia
4M

About 1.3% of Americans cannot reliably meet daily communication needs using natural speech.

US National Academies
1 in 200

The UK estimate of people who may need AAC, used to plan specialist services.

RCSLT
1 in 13

US adults report a voice problem every year, around 17.9 million people.

NIDCD / The Laryngoscope
11% vs 6%

Teachers report voice disorders at nearly twice the rate of everyone else. Heavy voice use, including singing and childcare, is a known risk factor.

Roy et al., JSLHR

Temporary, situational, progressive or permanent: when speech is out of reach, everything else gets harder. Speak Easy Suite is built for all of it.

How it works

Simple where you touch it.
Serious underneath.

On screen, it is a calm board of words and tiles. Beneath it, a private language engine is learning how you speak, ranking what you say, and keeping every word on your own hardware.

The part almost nobody else does

A talker that remembers everything you said, and hands it back when you need it most.

Your words stay yours. Everything you say is kept on your own device, never sent to the cloud, never shared. Then, when typing whole sentences gets harder, a few letters reach back into your own history and offer the thing you meant to say, ready to speak again in your voice. A coffee order. A joke you always tell. Something only for the person you love.

Speak Easy remembers every word and phrase, when you last said it and how often, so the things you say most sit closest to hand. A few letters, and it is you, saying it again.

Personalisation engine

Tuned to one person.
Never an average one.

Voice identity

Bank your own voice while you can, or build a clone of it, ElevenLabs-style, so what you type sounds like you. Cloning is strictly opt-in and consent-based: your recordings, your control, used for no one and nothing else.

Access, your way

Touch, type, dwell, blink, head movement or a single switch. When movement changes, the input method changes with you. The vocabulary does not.

Voice tuning

Rate, pitch, pauses and emphasis, adjusted until it sounds right to the people who know you. Practice tools help you keep your natural speech for longer.

Phrase banks

Quick words, locked essentials, snippets and topic boards that follow the shape of a real day. Your most-used lines auto-rank to the top.

Layout and load

Bigger targets, fewer choices, calmer screens on low-energy days. From a full keyboard down to a single yes or no, without starting over.

Rapid messaging

Context-aware prediction and history recall build whole sentences from a few letters, so the words are ready before the moment passes.

Digitally enhanced view of Your Voice with the storytelling phrase set loaded: the current phrase reads 'The road twisted through hills that smelled of eucalyptus', tagged descriptive, Australian flavour, with recorder controls and 83 phrases queued.
Your Voice. Banking the storytelling set, phrase 71 of 83: "The road twisted through hills that smelled of eucalyptus." Record yourself while you still can; your typed words keep the sound your family knows.

Up close

The best bits, in pixels.

Straight from the suite, enhanced so you can see what each tool is doing the moment you need it.

Digitally enhanced view of Speak Freely after a year of demo use: 'please' said 806 times ranks first in quick words tuned to 5+ letters, the spell-checker corrects 'tomorow' to 'tomorrow', and a keyword search for coffee has found 30 phrases.
Speak Freely, lived-in. A year of use loaded: quick words ranked by what you actually say, spell-check working mid-sentence, and a phrase search that just found 30 ways to ask about coffee.
Digitally enhanced view of Head Said open on its HERO spatial keyboard. The user has typed the snippet trigger '!cof' and a chip offers the full saved phrase: A flat white with one sugar, thanks.
Head Said. The HERO keyboard, open and working: four letters of a snippet typed, and the whole sentence is already waiting. Blink, dwell or single switch.
Digitally enhanced view of the Keynote teleprompter in Speak Freely with 'The Right to Speak' loaded: three speech blocks about communication as belonging, ready to play.
Keynote. "The Right to Speak", loaded block by block. A teleprompter for speeches, toasts and the things worth saying out loud.
Digitally enhanced view of Speak Clearly in story mode: 'The Walking Club That Wouldn't Quit', chapter one, with the target word 'slipped' selected from 147 practice words.
Speak Clearly. Story mode mid-read: a recovery story, a target word selected, 147 practice words queued. Practice that feels like reading, not therapy.
Digitally enhanced view of Speak n Go on a phone: typing 'drink' returns phrases where synonyms like tea, juice and wine are highlighted in blue.
Speak n Go. Synonym search, live: type "drink" and it finds the tea, the juice and the glass of red, one thumb, no scrolling.
Digitally enhanced view of the Phrase Library: 17 categories from Care and Access to Travel and Orientation, over 2,200 phrases, plus 81 custom phrases with Use and Edit controls.
The Phrase Library. 2,200+ phrases across 17 categories of real Australian life, plus your own. The six you use most surface automatically.
Digitally enhanced view of Speak a Choice, showing a large green Yes card and red No card, with callouts about instant speech on low-energy days.
Speak a Choice. When energy runs low, two cards are the whole conversation.

Enterprise and team workflows

Hardwired into the way
care and work actually happen.

One person rarely communicates alone. Speak Easy Suite is built for the team around them: families, clinicians, classrooms and organisations.

Clinics and therapists

Match the right tool to a hard Tuesday. Configure boards, vocabulary and access methods per client, and hand over a setup that just works.

Schools and education

Picture boards, choice cards and practice tools for the classroom, with layouts a support teacher can adjust in minutes, not meetings.

Workplaces

Keep colleagues in the conversation through vocal strain, recovery or long-term change. Quiet, fast and professional on any device already on the desk.

Care settings

Carers set up before a shift and hand the device over. Locked essentials such as Yes, No, Help and Pain are always one tap away, including in emergencies.

Admin control

Organisation licensing, device management and role-based settings, so the right people can configure and nobody can break what matters.

Privacy and compliance

Accessibility-first design aligned with WCAG. No data capture, no tracking, nothing sold. Speech history lives on the user's device, which keeps governance simple.

Onboarding measured in minutes. No installs to push, no accounts to provision for the basics, and the same suite on desktop, tablet and phone. It passes from hand to hand without anyone reaching for a manual.

Use cases

For a week. For a season.
For the rest of a remarkable life.

Temporary

Laryngitis and voice rest

Around 1 in 13 adults has a voice problem in any year. Order the coffee, run the meeting, read the bedtime story, all without spending a single word.

Temporary

Singers and performers

Singing is a known risk factor for voice disorders. Protect the instrument between shows and keep every conversation going at full volume.

Recovery

Post-surgical recovery

About 1 in 10 patients has temporary voice changes after thyroid surgery, and up to 3 in 4 after prolonged intubation. A clear voice for the weeks your own is healing.

Situational

Vocal fatigue at work

Teachers report voice disorders at nearly twice the general rate. Save your voice for the moments that need it and let the suite carry the rest.

Progressive

MND, PSP, ALS and Parkinson's

Built first for a family member living with PSP, and for a workmate and friend living with MND. As speech, energy and movement change, the tools shift with you, and your banked voice stays yours.

Acquired

Stroke, aphasia and brain injury

Roughly 1 in 3 stroke survivors lives with aphasia. Picture boards, predictions and phrase recall lower the effort of every sentence.

Long-term

Autism and lifelong AAC

Calm grids, consistent layouts and a vocabulary that grows with the person, at home, in class and everywhere in between.

Critical

Care and emergencies

When energy runs low, two large cards are enough: a green yes, a red no, spoken the instant you choose. Essentials stay locked on every screen.

Speak your Point with large picture tiles for Food and Beverage, Comfort, Family and Friends, and Assistance Needed.
Speak Simply on a phone, a calm grid of single-tap phrases including Yes, No, Maybe and Thank you.

Trust and evidence

The need is bigger than most people assume.
The evidence is clear.

"Every day in Australia, two people are diagnosed with MND and two people die from the disease."

MND Australia, echoed by FightMND's Fast Facts

An estimated 1.3% of Americans, around 4 million people, cannot reliably meet daily communication needs using natural speech, across conditions from stroke and autism to voice impairment and head and neck cancer.

US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Around 1 in 200 people may need augmentative and alternative communication, the estimate used to plan the UK's specialist AAC services.

Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists

Communication loss is not one story. It is temporary, like laryngitis, intubation recovery or surgery. It is situational, like vocal strain in teaching, childcare and performance, both recognised risk factors in voice research. And it is progressive or permanent, as with MND, Parkinson's, stroke and brain injury. Serious AAC has to serve all three, and it has to be ready before the hardest day, not after it.

Sources and references
  • National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2017). The Promise of Assistive Technology, ch. 6: Prevalence of AAC need. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK453284
  • Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. AAC overview (Creer et al. 2016; Webb et al. 2023). rcslt.org
  • Australian Bureau of Statistics, Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers (2015): 1.2 million Australians with communication disability. abs.gov.au
  • Stroke Foundation Australia: 440,000+ living with stroke; aphasia affects ~140,000. strokefoundation.org.au
  • MND Australia: prevalence and daily diagnosis figures. mndaustralia.org.au · FightMND, fightmnd.org.au
  • AIHW (2023). Head injuries in Australia 2020–21: 142,000 hospitalisations. aihw.gov.au
  • Cancer Australia: head and neck cancer statistics. canceraustralia.gov.au
  • Bhattacharyya N. (2014). Prevalence of voice problems among US adults, The Laryngoscope; NIDCD Quick Statistics. nidcd.nih.gov
  • Roy N. et al. (2004). Voice disorders in teachers and the general population, JSLHR. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
  • Post-thyroidectomy and post-intubation voice outcomes: peer-reviewed surgical and critical-care literature. PMC5413231 · PMC8212164

Figures are rounded and current as at the publication date of each source. The organisations cited are independent of JHACAL: they have not reviewed, sponsored or endorsed Speak Easy Suite, and are referenced solely as the published sources of the statistics shown. This page is general information about communication need. It is not medical advice.

Communication is a right,
not a privilege.

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