The Allora is an easy to use, keyboard based, text-to-speech generating device. Any message typed on the Allora’s display is read out clearly in a high quality natural sound male or female voice.

Digitized Sound

In addition to synthesized speech, the Allora can store and play digitized sounds. These digitized sounds can be used to attract attention, animate a conversation, for playback of a human voice or as a WAV or MP3 player. Someone with a progressive motor neuron disease might record their voice while they can still verbalize and then have the Allora use these recordings to “speak” with their voice when they can no longer verbalize.

Multiple Languages

The high quality synthesized voice (Realspeak™) is available in different languages. The Allora can change languages with a few keystrokes to accommodate multi-lingual settings. No additional hardware is needed.

Powerful Word Prediction

The Allora’s advanced text-to-speech capabilities are further enhanced by an intelligent word prediction system. A character keyed in will generate a predicted list of words that begin with that character. Word prediction can be further refined by the input of additional characters. When a complete word has been typed or inserted, the Allora predicts the next word using its knowledge of word pairs. The Allora’s word prediction can save about 50% of keystrokes, which significantly speeds up communication.

Pre-programmed Messages

The Allora can recall pre-stored messages. Commonly used phrases can be easily programmed under any key. The Allora can store more than 100 messages to be read out with its high quality voice.

Abbreviation Expansion

Use abbreviation expansion to display a whole message with just a few keystrokes.

Scanning

The Allora has built-in scanning – no extra display required, so there is no extra weight to lug around. Just plug in a standard switch, press and scanning will begin automatically. The row-column alphabet also takes advantage of word prediction.

Keyboard & Display

The Allora has a waterproof keyboard with normal sized keys. The tactile keys are easy to push. The LCD display consists of 2 lines with 40 characters each. The first line is used to write the message. The second line displays the word prediction list. The Scanning keyboard appears on the right hand side of the display.

Environmental Control

The integrated infrared remote control module (GEWA) allows you to control infrared based equipment. For example, the Allora can learn the infrared codes of a television to turn it on and off, change the channel or control the volume.