Choose
The child sends a clear preset request.
Features
Two apps, built around one communication journey.
Little Talks gives the child the communication tools. Little Beacons gives a parent or carer a local way to listen, reply, back up and understand the bigger picture.
Little Talks
Little Beacons
01 · Communicate
A clear AAC board with the sentence always in sight.
Little Talks keeps the vocabulary grid, sentence area, next-tile suggestions and speech controls together on one screen.
- Visual AAC tiles arranged into categories
- Sentence building from individual selections
- Speak, clear and delete controls
- Icons or emoji visual styles
02 · Personalise
Make the board look and sound more familiar.
AAC does not have to stay generic. Real photos can sit beside the built-in artwork, and individual tiles can use their own image, emoji or familiar recording.
- Custom photos for individual tiles
- Familiar people represented with real images
- Parent or carer recordings on tiles
- Text-to-speech fallback
03 · Predict
Useful next tiles can mean fewer taps.
When predictive tiles are enabled, Little Talks can suggest likely next words based on the sentence being built and the child’s own communication patterns.
I need
→
help me · toilet · drink · eat
04 · Connect
Little Messages closes the loop.
A child request can move locally to Little Beacons, get a response, and return to the child app.
Choose
The child sends a clear preset request.
Receive
The parent or carer sees it in Little Beacons.
Reply
The response appears back on Little Talks.
05 · Protect
Local communication. Local backup. Your data stays with you.
Little Talks and Little Beacons are designed to work between the devices you control rather than relying on a Little Talks cloud account.
- Little Messages communicate locally
- Backups move directly between child and parent devices
- No Little Talks server stores the child’s AAC backup
- Insights are aggregated on the child device when requested
Little Talks
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Little Beacons
06 · Understand
See patterns without turning communication into surveillance.
Communication Insights can summarise how Little Talks is being used while keeping the raw communication history on the child device.
- Selections and unique vocabulary
- Prediction use and average message length
- Emerging vocabulary
- Time-of-day patterns
- Professional PDF reports
And the practical bits
Settings that let you adjust the experience.
The current build also includes speech rate and pitch controls, high contrast mode, larger landscape tiles, quick responses, predictive tile toggles and privacy controls around Communication Insights.
