Aloud
When speaking is hard, type. Aloud says your words out loud.
Type it. Tap once. It speaks.
Type what you need to say and Aloud speaks it in a voice you picked. The phrases you use most sit right under the keyboard, a chime can get the room's attention first, and when a sentence will not come out right you can ask for other wording, worked out on your iPhone and only when you ask.
Or show it in big letters.
Loud room, quiet voice. Tap Big and your sentence fills the screen in type someone can read across a counter. Speak it, turn the phone to them, done.
Your words, ready before you need them.
Card mode holds one plain statement about why you cannot speak right now, and five answers you wrote in advance. One of them can call the person you trust, straight from the card, with a message ready to send if the call does not connect.
One tap from the Lock Screen.
Put the card on your Lock Screen, the Action Button, or a shortcut. In the moments that count it opens in seconds, and you never have to hunt for an app.
The things you say most, kept in order.
Two short lists you control. Five answers for the hard moments, on the card. Everyday phrases for the counter and the kitchen, on the home screen. Drag to reorder, and that is the whole setup.
Hand it over. They type back.
One screen, two of you. The other person types at the top, you answer at the bottom, and nobody has to shout or lip-read across a desk.
No account. No signal. No subscription.
Typing, speaking, your card, and the five answers are free and work offline. Your words stay on your device, and reach your other devices only through your own private iCloud once you turn that on. One purchase, paid a single time, adds unlimited everyday phrases, that sync, and Personal Voice where your iPhone supports it.
Say what you need to say.