Message banking
You can record real spoken phrases (your own voice, or a family member’s) and have boards play them instead of the synthetic voice. Clinicians call this message banking, and for people who will lose (or have lost) their natural speech it means the board can still say “I love you” in the voice that matters.
How it works in Public AAC
Section titled “How it works in Public AAC”Recordings live in a bank owned by the person, keyed by the text they speak; they are not glued to one button on one board. Record “hello” once and it plays on every “hello” button: on the core board, inside folders, and on boards you import later. Re-importing or rebuilding a board never loses recordings, because they aren’t part of the board.
Two details worth knowing:
- A recording never overrides audio a board itself ships with (an imported board can carry its own sounds).
- Matching ignores case and spacing, so “Hello” and “hello” are the same phrase.
Record and manage phrases in Setup → Recordings — the walkthrough is in Managing recordings.
Your voice stays yours
Section titled “Your voice stays yours”Recordings are stored on the device. They are never used to train or clone a synthetic voice. They leave the device only two ways: inside your own board exports, or, if the person’s boards sync to an account, through the per-person recordings opt-in (off by default), end-to-end encrypted so the server can never listen to them.