Verbally

Up until now, people who have lost or never had the ability to speak have needed to utilize a hefty portable electronic device with keyboard to do their speaking for them. And because of the clumsiness of some of these units, they've sometimes needed a second person to use the unit for them. Whilst technology has developed to provide something better for fixed use in wheelchairs, it's still slow and clumsy and all of these are very expensive. Until now, apparently.

The Verbally app is a FREE iPad application that fully simulates a dedicated device, including not only three different virtual keyboard layouts and a preselected set of more than fifty words to save keystrokes, but predictive text and a learning facility too. Male or female voices are provided, no network connection is required, and did I mention it's free?

You'll know if you have a need for this, and I imagine anyone with that need and who can lay hands on an iPad for the purpose is going to be grabbing one just as fast as they can.