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Custom Soundboard Lite
A free, big-button soundboard that helps people who cannot speak communicate by tapping clear, familiar tiles. Made for my younger brother, who has non-verbal autism and Down syndrome. Try it below: it is the same board as the Android app.
The board, in your browser.
Tap a tile to hear it. Three starter pages hold the same tiles as the app. Use the menu button (top right) to change them: the demo password is 123. The full-screen button next to it opens the board on its own, like an app.
Changes you make here stay on this page only and are cleared when you reload. Recording and taking photos are in the Android app only. Typed words are spoken by your browser's own voices, so they sound different from the app's recorded clips. The photo tile on page 3 is James himself, only in this web version.
Simple, predictable, dignified.
Custom Soundboard is an accessibility-focused communication tool. Each tile is a large picture on a colour, and tapping it plays a spoken word or phrase. There is no purchase barrier, so it can be useful to individuals, families, carers and support networks.
A parent, carer or relative can customise tiles in a password-protected edit mode, without needing to be technical.
Features.
- Large picture tiles, five across, two rows to a page
- Three starter pages, plus up to five extra pages
- Edit mode with a draft: nothing goes live until you tap Confirm
- Change a tile's audio (typed words, or your own MP3, WAV or M4A), picture and label
- About 2,100 pictures to choose from: Mulberry Symbols and OpenMoji, searchable by name
- Drag one tile onto another to swap them
- Runs on old tablets: the Lite edition supports 32-bit Android 5.0 devices such as the 2012 Nexus 7
Tech stack
Pictures.
Mulberry Symbols by Steve Lee are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License (mulberrysymbols.org).
Emoji designed by OpenMoji, the open-source emoji and icon project. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
Custom Soundboard is free software, released under the GNU General Public License v3.0.