- Kannda and Malayalam languages added with multiple male and female variations in voices.
- New voices in Spanish, German, and Bengali (India)
- Issue fix for more stability in the app and language
- Kannda and Malayalam languages added with multiple male and female variations in voices.
- New voices in Spanish, German, and Bengali (India)
- Issue fix for more stability in the app and language
- Gujarati and Punjabi languages added with multiple male and female variations in voices.
- New voices in Spanish, German, and Bengali (India)
- Issue fix for more stability in the app and language
- Issue fix for more stability in the app.
- Fixed:- After the language package update few board icons do not work
- Fixed:- Camera picture selection does not work for a few newer devices
- User can now select voice of either male or female voice from available voices.
- Introducing the "Text bar" which displays spoken text from the app. To enable "Text bar" go to the Settings turn on the "Text bar" toggle button.
- Addition of English (Nigeria), Bengali (Bangladesh) & Telugu (India) languages.
- User can create board's. Add their own custom icons or choose from existing library to the board. Tap semi-transparent circular "+" icon on the right top to go to create board screen.
- User can create board's. Add their own custom icons or choose from existing library to the board. Tap semi-transparent circular "+" icon on the right top to go to create board screen.
- User can search, icon by typing its English name; In all non English languages. E.g. To search a "Mango" icon, type "mango" in search bar.
- User will receive language/icon updates on the internet within app.
- Added compatibility for Android 10 and its new swipe based navigation.
- Fix the app crash on update.
- User can create board's. Add their own custom icons or choose from existing library to the board. Tap semi-transparent circular "+" icon on the right top to go to create board screen.
- User can search, icon by typing its English name; In all non English languages. E.g. To search a "Mango" icon, type "mango" in search bar.
- User will receive language/icon updates on the internet within app.
- Added compatibility for Android 10 and its new swipe based navigation.
- Fix the app crash on update.
- User can create board's. Add their own custom icons or choose from existing library to the board. Tap semi-transparent circular "+" icon on the right top to go to create board screen.
- User can search, icon by typing its english name; In all non english languages. Eg. To search a "Mango" icon, type "mango" in search bar.
- User will receive language/icon updates on the internet within app.
- Added compatibility for Android 10 and its new swipe based navigation.
-Added new languages: Tamil, Spanish, German & French
-New setting values for "Number of icons per screen"
-User can now search and jump directly to icons in the activity sequences
-Highlighting an icon in the search in now replaced by icon selection.
-Simplified switching between languages.
-Added support for external USB switches
-Added button at Feedback screen and other UI improvements.
-Issue fixes in privacy link and other issue fixes
- Addition of Visual accessibility (TalkBack support). To turn on TalkBack feature from your device settings: Goto Settings -> Accessibility -> TalkBack -> Press turn on switch
- Addition of new language: English (Australia)
- New design for Serial Keyboard.
- Addition of new language in Serial Keyboard : Bengali (India)
- Addition of new layouts to support 19 : 9 screen ratio devices.
- Addition of scroll in intro screen.
- Other bug fixes
- Addition of new language: Marathi (India)
- Support for Android 9 devices
- Bug fixes
- Addition of new language: Bengali (India)
- All items in the ‘Places’ category now have context-appropriate sub-categories.
- Addition of new content/icons pertaining to good and bad habits, socially appropriate behaviors and reporting of abuse.
- Improved and colorful interface
- Clear, step-wise instructions to enable users to add/delete and change default languages within the app
- Bug fixes in Emergency call functionality
- Fixed other issues.
- Search feature to enable quick access to desired icons.
- Notifications of new versions of app and updates on upcoming Jellow workshops.
- Ability to place a call to caregiver in case of emergency in devices with sim cards.
- Ability to enable or disable emergency call feature from app 'Settings'.
- Brand new icons in "People", "Places", and "Time and Weather" categories.
- Bug fixes for Android Oreo.
- Fixed bug showing incompatibility for Wifi only devices.
Integrated all-in-one app (International and Indian versions now unified!)Simple way of adding multiple languages into appApp in 2 languages (English and Hindi) & multiple accents (Indian, American, and British)Support for Android Nougat and OreoScroll feature for easy in-app navigationCustomization options for icons (3 or 9 icons per screen) & text display ('Picture+Text' or 'Picture only' mode)Serial & QWERTY keyboardNew icons in "help", "safety", "therapy", "money", & "requests"
Minor bug fixes for Nougat
Jellow Basic AAC Communicator, Giving a Voice to Speak - is a freely downloadable friendly Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) system that uses icons/images to enable aid communication in children learning to speak or with difficulty with speech and language. Jellow Basic helps non-verbal children to communicate and gradually learn to speak - especially those with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Down’s syndrome.
Jellow Basic is designed especially for children, can also be used by toddlers (3+) and early learners to learn words and categories frequently used in their daily lives. Jellow’s colourful icons can help children develop an association between pictures and their corresponding word labels.
Jellow Basic has visually appealing images, is very simple, easy to use and learn, is culturally sensitive to your food, festivals and places with access to multiple languages. Jellow's interface consists of central 'category' buttons and 'expressive' side buttons. The user can make the app speak out sentences by simply clicking on any of the category buttons followed by any of the expressive buttons. The content of the app is organized into basic category buttons that make it easy for the user to access and find desired icons.
Jellow Basic has around 1200 icons designed with feedback from users and over 10,000 lines of pre-made sentences. In addition, using the 'keyboard' feature, the user can also generate new sentences and use the app to speak them out aloud. The current version of the app allows the user to choose languages such as English, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Spanish, German and French with multiple accents Indian, American, British, Australia) and voices.
Jellow Basic is developed at the IDC School of Design at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) located in Mumbai with support from UNICEF, Ministry and Hospitals. It is designed iteratively with regular feedback from users namely children, parents, therapists, teachers, care givers and substantiated through longitudinal studies.
Jellow Basic Communicator has been deliberately made available at free of cost as a gesture of inclusiveness, so that it remains easily and widely accessible, especially to those children who need such assistance the most.
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Unique Features
1. Designed for Children: Jellow is designed especially for children and it's not an adult version made suitable for children.
2. Child Friendly Icons: Jellow has a library of 1200 child-friendly icons developed inhouse with feedback from users.
3. Easy-to Use and Learn Interface: It has an extremely simple and easy user interface.
4. Culture Specific Icons: Jellow has culturally contextual icons – like your food, festivals and places.
5. ELP: Jellow is driven by its expressive emotional language protocol to create sentences.
6. Multiple Languages: Jello Basic is available in the following languages with multiple accents - English, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil,Telugu, French, Spanish and German
6. Made Accessible: Jellow can be connected to external switches and has built in accessibility features.
7. Make my Board: You can customise you own icons, sentences and arrange it in your personal board.
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Jellow User Group
Jellow Basic is suitable for children with Speech Disability:
- Articulation/phonological disorder
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
- Angelman syndrome,
- Aphasia
- Autism symptoms, Asperger syndrome and ASD
- Cerebral palsy (CP)
- Dysarthria
- Down syndrome
- Motor Neuron Disease (MND)
- Rett syndrome,
- Speech Apraxia
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For further information on Jellow AAC Communicator and FAQs, please visit:-
https://jellow.org/jellow-basic.php
Do submit your feedback/comments via email at jellowcommunicator@gmail.com
Jellow AAC Communicator is designed and developed by Jellow Labs © 2022