Aacoris AAC
A free AAC app for patients who can't use their voice. Built for the ICU, the rehab unit, and the rest of life.
Patients with a tracheostomy, a laryngectomy, or long-term mechanical ventilation often go days, weeks, or longer without their natural voice. Whiteboards, paper, and finger-pointing fill the gap, but they are slow and silent — and silent is the wrong tool for medical communication.
Aacoris is a free AAC app that turns a phone or tablet into a speaking voice. Tap a phrase and the device speaks. Save the eight or ten requests that matter most. Add medications, family names, and personal vocabulary. It works in the ICU, the step-down unit, on the drive home, and in the kitchen — with no Wi-Fi required and no subscription.
From acute care to long-term outpatient life, the same app moves with the patient.
Patients with new tracheostomies often can't phonate or use a speaking valve yet. Aacoris gives them a way to ask for suctioning, pain relief, or family without writing on a whiteboard.
While patients are learning esophageal speech, an electrolarynx, or a tracheoesophageal prosthesis, AAC fills the gap so daily needs and conversations don't depend on writing.
For long-term mechanical ventilation, an AAC app on a tablet at the bedside is a low-friction way to keep patients in control of nursing and family interactions.
Once home, the same app keeps working — at the pharmacy, at appointments, at the grocery store. No setup, no internet, no learning curve.
Speed, reliability, and personalization are what make an AAC app actually get used at the bedside.
One-tap access to suctioning, pain, breathing, and call-the-nurse. Faster than typing on a phone or pointing at a paper board.
Medical, Daily Needs, Family, and Emergency tabs reduce searching at the moments where speed matters most.
Hospital Wi-Fi is unreliable and home Wi-Fi can drop. Aacoris stores every voice and phrase locally so the patient is never silenced by connectivity.
Choose male or female voices in English, French, or German. A familiar-sounding voice supports identity, especially after laryngectomy.
Add the patient's specific medications, the names of nursing staff or family, dietary preferences, and the ten or so requests they need to make every day.
Shake-to-activate gives a voiceless patient a way to call for urgent help when they can't reach a call button.
This is the path most patients and families follow with Aacoris. Adapt it with the SLP and bedside team.
Install Aacoris on the patient's phone or tablet. Mount or position the device within easy reach. Walk through the four built-in categories with the patient and at least one nurse.
Pin the patient's eight most-used phrases (suction, pain, water, bathroom, hot, cold, family, sleep) to Favorites for one-tap access.
Add patient-specific phrases: medications, the names of family members and key staff, dietary needs, and the requests that come up repeatedly during rounds.
Same app, same setup, same phrases. The patient doesn't have to relearn anything when they leave inpatient care, which is when miscommunication usually spikes.
Common questions from voiceless patients, families, and clinical teams.
Join thousands of families, caregivers, and clinicians using Aacoris to bridge the gap in communication. No credit card required.
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