Faster CommunicationFewer Keystrokes
A communication assistant for people living with ALS, MND, and other speech & motor difficulties. Use it with touch, a keyboard, your eyes, or a switch.
Free to use. Your words can stay on this device.
Try the working demos below. ↓
Type a little.
Tap the rest.
Speak.
Suggestions help finish your thought. Choose your words, then press Speak to say them out loud.
Setup asks how you choose. With eye gaze, a key fills as you look at it, then presses. With a switch, a band moves through the screen, and one press picks.
Try typing “I ha”, then tap a suggestion.
Said today
Suggestions
Make September your own
Say what you need.
The space changes.
Your Agent turns a conversation into a space that fits your life. Prepare phrases, organize notes, and keep changing things as your needs change.
You ask
“Set up this space for my calls with my neurologist. I tire quickly, so I want short answers ready.”
Doctor calls
Ready for youYour phrases
- Can you say that again, more slowly?
- What are the side effects?
See the Agent conversation
Your Doctor calls space is ready, with two phrases for the call. I added your wish for short answers to its context.
Set up this space for my calls with my neurologist. I tire quickly, so I want short answers ready.
Change this spaceand 2 more
- Change this space
- Doctor calls
- Create phrase
- Can you say that again, more slowly?
- Create phrase
- What are the side effects?
Your Doctor calls space is ready, with two phrases for the call. I added your wish for short answers to its context.
Spaces & saved phrases
Your words, ready for every room.
Keep a space for family, friends, work, or your book club, each with its own phrases and notes. Pin the words you use most and give longer phrases short codes — two letters can be a whole sentence.
Switch spaces, then try one of the codes shown below the composer.
Codes here: cm → I’ve changed my mind. · trip → Let’s make a weekend of it. · film → I’m choosing the film.
Notes & Present
Longer thoughts, ready ahead of time.
A story for your kids, a family celebration, a pitch for your next project. Write it once, read it aloud in your voice, or share it as a file.
Notes & Present
Longer thoughts, ready ahead of time.
A story for your kids, a family celebration, a pitch for your next project. Write it once, read it aloud in your voice, or share it as a file.
Play the story, or press Present to hear it one passage at a time.
Bedtime story — the island adventure
The four of them rowed out to the island, with Scout barking at the waves. Inside the cave, Jo’s torch lit up an old wooden chest. “Treasure,” whispered Ben. “Real treasure!” But behind them, something moved in the dark…
The four of them rowed out to the island, with Scout barking at the waves.
Your voice
Keep your own voice.
Clone your voice from a 30-second recording, even an old home video. Use it for messages, notes, and presentations.
Your voice
Keep your own voice.
Clone your voice from a 30-second recording, even an old home video. Use it for messages, notes, and presentations.
Cloning happens in the app — preview a starting voice below.
Clone your voice
Use a 30-second recording of yourself, or audio from an old home video. Cloning uses ElevenLabs, an optional voice service.
Until then, start with a natural voice from this device:
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Expression
Say it the way you feel it.
Pick a mood, and the suggestions change their tone. With an Eleven v3 voice, tags like [laughs] and [sighs] tell your voice how to say each line.
Expression
Say it the way you feel it.
Pick a mood, and the suggestions change their tone. With an Eleven v3 voice, tags like [laughs] and [sighs] tell your voice how to say each line.
Choose a mood to see how a line changes.
laughs Can we try that one more time?
The voice reads a tag as a direction and does not say it aloud. Other voices get the words without the tags.
Your words can stay on this device.
No September account. No required cloud service. Your spaces, phrases, and notes stay with you. AI assistance and voice services are optional.
About
Type words, not keys.
I’m Ravi. I was diagnosed with ALS in 2019. Clicks are precious when you type with your eyes or a head mouse. I want each one to carry more of what I mean to say.
Saved phrases and simple text expansion only go so far. A conversation keeps moving: you respond, change your mind, make a joke, say something you’ve never said before. Your communication app needs to move with you.
September is my attempt to build a dynamic, fully customizable AAC alternative around that need. The goal is to help you choose words and shape whole thoughts with fewer keystrokes, in your own voice, on your own terms.
Read the full storyYour next conversation starts here.
Free and open source. Start on your own, or with someone beside you.
In your browser
Nothing to install. Talk, spaces, phrases, and notes on your tablet, laptop, or desktop.
Get startedOn your Mac Alpha
The full app in one panel that floats above your other apps, beside a call or a document. Press Control-Option-Space to bring it back. On-device AI Assistance with Apple Intelligence on supported Macs, and September Microphone for calls.