Talk'n Photos App for the iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch
EULA and Privacy Statement (PDF)
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Frequently Asked Questions & Known Issues
Description
Talk'n Photos is a simple-to-navigate talking photo album. Completely customizable, this app allows you to add text and voice recording to album covers as well as each entry (picture) within an album. Photos or symbols may be uploaded from your camera, taken with your iPad/iTouch/iPhone or downloaded from a large number of free clip art/photo art web sites.
Each photo appears in a 2x2 inch representation with unlimited albums and pages. Editing allows you to move, rotate, scale and re-sequence photos. Users create grids of three pictures horizontally and unlimited choices vertically. For example, an album cover may consist of an empty plate and verbal cue such as “I’m hungry”. Once activated, album contents could include photos of favorite food items.
Customized recordings allow the user to record single words or entire phrases to communicate the desired message. Simple navigation once inside the album consists of an arrow leading back to the initial album covers. This feature allows for easy navigation and prevents the user from becoming lost or confused by multiple interconnecting pages. Editing may be locked in order to prevent unwanted changes to programming. Your password, should you set one, will be emailed to the address of your choice.
Target Population
Talk'n Photos is appropriate for individuals of all ages who may display one or more of the following:
- Developmental Cognitive Delays
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- English Language Learners
- Neurological Disorders
- Pre-School (Early Language Learners)
- Limited Vocabulary
- Poor speech production/no speech
In addition to using Talk'n Photos for communication, it is an excellent support for classroom and therapeutic activities.
Why Use Talk'n Photos?Talk'n Photos has a wide range of potential applications:
- Communication
- Social stories
- Sharing information
- Cognitive retraining
- Vocabulary development/building
- Improving literacy
- Teaching English
- Scripting events
- Developing independent living skills (i.e. following a recipe, sequence for dressing)
- Following directions
- Increasing comprehension
- Memory tool
- Developing language skills such as categorization and sequencing
- Creating educational games
- Visual schedules
Talk'n Photos is available now on iTunes for $2.99.
Tip
If you’re using web based clip art, it saves time to search and load clip art/photos in advance of creating and editing albums.
To Create an Album
- Open Talk'n Photos. Press the settings icon. It’s the little image of gears in the top left corner.
- Turn edit “on” Set password if desired (you can email it to yourself...just in case). If you do set a password, please save the email in a safe place. If you don’t elect to send the email to yourself for a chosen password, the password will reset after three incorrect attempts.
If for some reason, you’ve managed to both forget your password and lose the email with the password in it, you can send an email to (add email). This is an autoresponding email that will email you a reset key to disable your current password. Enter that code
in the password window to disable the password. - Select “done.”
- Select “edit” upper right.
- Select “add album.”
- Select “album name” and a keyboard will appear, type in the album name.
- Select “add photo” and follow directions on the screen.
- Use pinching motion to zoom in and out/resize the photo you have chosen. By touching the picture again you will be able to rotate photo if necessary.
- Select “use” (upper right).
- Select the microphone just above the photo space to record sound for the cover.
- Select the microphone icon again in the bottom left of the screen to start and stop recording sound. The playback button allows you to listen to your recording. “Trash” the recording if not satisfied, re-record.
- Select “done.”
- Select “save”, you will now be on the album cover page.
How to add photos to individual albums
- From album cover page, select album you would like to fill.
- Select “edit” (upper right).
- Select “Photo Caption” and a keyboard will appear, type in the photo name.
- Select “Add Photo” and follow directions on the screen.
- Use pinching motion to zoom in and out/resize the photo you have chosen. By touching the picture again you will be able to rotate photo if necessary.
- Select “Use” (upper right).
- Select the microphone just above the photo space to record sound for the photo.
- Select the microphone icon again in the bottom left of the screen to start and stop recording sound. The playback button allows you to listen to your recording. “Trash” the recording if not satisfied, re-record.
- Select “done.”
- Rinse and repeat until you have added all your photos.
To change the sequence of the photos
Select edit mode.
On right side select icon (looks like 3 bars), slide item up or down to new location.
Select “done.”
To Exit Editing Mode
Exit edit mode when finished programming by entering “settings/off/done.”
Talk'n Photos is available now on iTunes for $2.99.