Free Speech ·

Free Speech is an augmentative and alternative communication web application designed to help the non-verbal communicate without cost.

• Free & Open-Source, Forever: Free Speech is committed to providing its services at no cost for the entire duration of the application's lifespan. We believe that communication is a right that everyone deserves to have access too regaurdless of income status.
• Hosted on the Internet: Free Speech is completely hosted from your web browser, meaning it will run on about anything with an internet connection. Our team reccommends tablets, touch screen laptops, and computers to run the software, however smart-phones can be used too.
• Fully Customizable: Free Speech's edit mode makes it easy for just about anyone to start programming AAC tile layouts. The app is designed to support both extensive large-scale custom tile layouts as well as small and quick edits on the fly. You can also export and import tile layouts from a file, meaning they're sharable across devices. Your customizations save automatically in the browser, so there's no need to worry about lost progress.

Quick start

For regular users:

• Navigate to http://app.freespeechaac.com/ on the device you wish to use the software on.
• If you are using a computer, bookmark that tab in the browser to come back to it, your changes will save in the browser.
• If you're using iOS, open Free Speech in Safari, then click middle share button on the bottom row of buttons. Then, scroll down on the share pop-up and click on "Add to Home Screen". This will add Free Speech as an app on the iOS home screen. Your changes will save in the app.
• If you're using Android, open Free Speech in Chrome, then tap on the three dots on the top right. Navigate to "Add to Home Screen" on the pop up and select that item, name the app "Free Speech" and add the app to your home screen. Your changes will save in the app.

For Developers:

• First make sure you have your Node and NPM installed and updated. If you need to install Node, visit this website.
• Run git clone https://github.com/merkie/freespeech freespeech in your directory of choice then cd freepeech/vueapp
• Next, run npm i and after that is complete you can run the Vue app on your machine by running npm run serve you can also build the application by running npm run build
• Please be sure to also read our contributing guide!

Authors

• Archer Calder - Founder/Lead Developer - GitHub Donate [email protected]
• Bailey Townsend - Core Team Member/Lead Developer - GitHub Linkedin

None of this would be possible without you all. Thank you!

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Sponsors

Special Thanks

Thanks to Icons8 for providing all icons and graphics for the Free Speech AAC project!

Thanks to CNN for covering Free Speech AAC!

Thanks to the BBC for covering Free Speech AAC!

License

Free Speech AAC is MIT licensed.