Sentence Bar Basics

The sentence bar is where you build your message! Tapping on buttons (round icons) will add the words or phrases here to form your sentence. Once you're happy with your message, you can tap anywhere on the bar to say it out loud.

Speaker Modes

There are two speaker modes in QVoice.  

• QVoicer Mode - what the AAC user operates in
• Model Mode - what everyone else uses

To switch between the modes, you have to double tap the Q menu. 

Why do you have two modes?  

This is how we separate the usage data between QVoicer and Model modes.  You can read more about our data collection here.

	QVoicer Mode	Model Mode
	used by the primary AAC User (QVoicer)	used by everyone else
Q Menu	shown in BLACK Can be changed into a different letter. See here for steps.	Shown in RED to indicate Model mode Can be changed into a different letter. See here for steps.
History buttons	These buttons let you cycle through the last spoken sentence.
Repeat Button	This button repeats the last spoken sentence.
Delete Button	Single tap deletes the last word in the sentence bar. Long press (tap and hold) the backspace button to delete the entire sentence.
Hinting buttons	not available	Add or remove hints to the grid.  See Hinting for more details.

Faded history

After tapping on the sentence bar to speak your sentences, the icons will fade.  This is helpful to model the words you want to teach.  

It is also very helpful if the listener didn't hear what was spoken.  A quick glance at the sentence bar will tell the listener what the user last said.

This faded history can be disabled in the Preferences.