Animated Speech Corporation

2261 Market Street, #293
San Francisco, California 94114
United States
Telephone: 800-701-9025.
Fax: 877-295-8238.
Web: http://www.animatedspeech.com.
Email: info@animatedSpeech.com.

Products manufactured by Animated Speech Corporation (listed alphabetically)

1. TEAM UP WITH TIMO: LESSON CREATOR

   Team Up with Timo: Lesson Creator is a lesson authoring program designed for use by teachers, therapists, or parents of children with autism or communication or language disabilities. The program enables users to create customized multimedia vocabulary and language lessons featuring an animated onscreen tutor called Timo, who coaches students through each new lesson, offering encouragement and direction as needed. To create lessons, users import pictures such as photographs, clip art, or Mayer-Johnson symbols, and customize what Timo says. Lessons can be shared through e-mail, uploaded, and modified. The program comes with a set of 3,500 Picture Communication Symbols from Mayer-Johnson. COMPATIBILITY: For use with IBM or compatible computers or Apple Macintosh computers. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Windows 98 SE or Macintosh OS X or higher operating system; Internet connection (broadband recommended).

2. TEAM UP WITH TIMO: STORIES

   Team Up with Timo: Stories is a story reading program designed for use by children with autism or communication or language disabilities. This computer-based instructional program helps develop story comprehension and social interaction skills using a three-dimensional animated agent, a talking head called Timo. Children engage in shared and repeated reading with Timo to work on listening, answering "wh" questions, retelling stories, and vocabulary. COMPATIBILITY: For use on IBM or compatible computers or Apple Macintosh computers. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Windows 98 SE through XP or Macintosh 9.2 through OSX operating system.

3. TEAM UP WITH TIMO: VOCABULARY

   Team Up with Timo: Vocabulary is a vocabulary enhancement program designed for use by children who are deaf or hard of hearing, or who have apraxia, autism, or other language learning delays. This computer-based instructional program uses a three-dimensional animated agent, a talking head called Timo, to help children practice identifying, hearing, and saying new words. Timo engages each student in conversation and addresses them by name as he takes them through personalized, interactive lessons that include 127 vocabulary-building lessons covering more than 650 words and images drawn from kindergarten through 4th grade curriculums. The lessons have eight customizable levels of practice: pre-test, presentation, identification, reading, spelling, imitation, elicitation, and post-test. Subject areas and topics include animals and insects, space, the human body, weather, water cycles, and dozens more. Lessons have complete captioning that can be turned on or off. Recordings of student speech and articulation are made so they can be heard by therapists, teachers, or parents. Children receive customizable and colorful reward animations for correct answers, and are provided with cheerful, personalized My Work reports. A password-protected administration area contains tools for teachers, specialists, and parents, which can be used to create and edit student profiles, generate detailed reports of students' progress for inclusion in IEPs, and play back student recordings to monitor vocabulary and articulation progress. COMPATIBILITY: For use with IBM or compatible computers or Apple Macintosh computers. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: IBM compatible computers require Windows 98 or higher operating system, 600 megaHertz (MHz) processor, and 128 megabytes RAM. Apple Macintosh computers require Mac OS 9.2 or higher operating system, 400 MHz processor, and 128 megabytes RAM. For all computers, a 16-bit color or higher monitor, Sound Blaster or compatible 16-bit sound card, speaker or headphones, microphone, CD-ROM drive, and 300 megabytes (MB) disk space.