To open the Unity AAC app settings, select Menu > Settings. From the Settings screen, scroll to see all available settings. When you finish changing settings, select Done in the upper left corner of the settings.
Profiles
To save the current app settings as a profile for easy access at a later time, select Save Profile, enter a name for the profile, and select Save.
Load Profile
To load a profile, select Load Profile and select the applicable profile name.
Navigation
Allow Gestures
Allows you to add a gesture to a page such as swiping left or right to engage an action.
Gesture Pop Sound
Provides audible feedback when a gesture is performed.
Button Click Sound
Provides audible feedback when a button is selected.
Button Navigation Icons
Displays the small navigation arrows in the top right corner of all buttons. When the setting is off, the arrows are hidden.
Page Size
Status Bar
Displays the device status bar above the Speech Display Bar.
Keyguard Inset
Adjusts the display for a keyguard. Select Menu > Settings and scroll to the Page Size section. Then select Keyguard Inset.
Off: Select this option if you are not using a keyguard.
Generic: Select this option if the app is running on a current Via® device or non-PRC-Saltillo device.
PRC-Saltillo: This option appears only if your Via device supports it. Select the option to adjust the display.
Editing
Menu Passcode
Allows you to enter the password you want to use.
Use Menu Passcode
Requires a password to access the Editing menus.
Speech
Voice
Allows you to select voices to download and install. Because there are many voice options, voices are downloadable. If you only download and install the voices you need, you can save a lot of storage space on your device.
The Voice setting displays the voice currently selected. To download and install a different voice, select Voice to open a list of available voices. To hear how a voice sounds, select the speaker
icon. Listen to several voices. When you find the voice you want, select the download
icon to download and install it.
Phone/FaceTime Voice
Allows you to select the voice you want to use for phone calls. The Phone/FaceTime Voice setting displays the voice currently selected.
To download and install a different voice, select Phone/FaceTime Voice to open a list of available voices.
To hear how a voice sounds, select the speaker icon
. Listen to several voices.When you find the voice you want, select the Apple icon
to download and install it.
Novelty voices are added to the list of available voices when this setting is on.
Speech Display Bar
Hide Speech Display
Hides the entire SDB.
Allow Copy/Paste
Gives the user the option to copy/paste from the SDB.
Auto Capitalization
Capitalizes the first word of a sentence automatically.
Font
Allows you to select one of the available fonts to use for text in the SDB.
Font Size
Determines the size of the font that appears in the SDB. Font sizes range from 14 Point to 72 Point.
Note: If you try to select a font size and number of lines that together would make the SDB larger than the screen can accommodate, the font size will be adjusted down automatically to a value that allows the SDB to fill no more than 60% of the screen.
Font Color
Allows you to choose one of the available font colors to apply to text in the SDB.
Background Color
Allows you to choose one of the available background colors to apply to the SDB.
Number of Lines
Allows you to choose how many lines of text you want to appear in the SDB. The number of lines ranges from 1 Line to 10 Lines.
Visible Cursor
Displays the cursor to appear in the SDB. Turn this setting off if you do not want the cursor to appear in the SDB. If this setting is turned off and you insert the cursor at the end of the SDB while in Place Cursor mode, the cursor will not appear.
Allow Place Cursor
Allows Place Cursor to appear as an option in the SDB context menu. This would allow you to press and hold on the SDB to place the cursor without setting up a Place Cursor button.
Tap Action
Allows you to Speak, Speak and Enlarge Text, or No Action the SDB is selected.
Highlight Spoken Word
Allows you to select a color to see the words highlighted in the SDB as they are spoken.
Highlight Color Phone/FaceTime
Allows you to select a color to see the words highlighted in the SDB as they are spoken during a telephony call.
Expanded Speech Area
Font
Allows you to select one of the seven available fonts for use for text in the expanded speech area.
Font Size
Determines the size of the font that appears in the expanded speech area.
Font Color
Allows you to choose one of the available font colors to apply to text in the expanded speech area.
Background Color
Allows you to choose one of the available background colors to apply to the expanded speech area.
Speak
Speak Characters
Allows each character to be spoken as it is entered.
Speak Words
Allows each word to be spoken as it is entered.
Speak Sentences
Allows each sentence to be spoken as it is entered.
Auto Clear
Allows you to set what happens to text in the Speech Display Bar after it is spoken.
Off: Spoken text remains in the Speech Display Bar until you clear it.
Immediate: Text is cleared automatically from the Speech Display Bar as soon as it is spoken.
After Next Activation: Text is cleared automatically from the Speech Display Bar when you activate a button in your vocabulary.
Prevent Interruption
Prevents interruptions of speaking a sentence if you accidentally hit another button while it is speaking.
Tilt
Note: The Tilt settings are available only when the app is running on an iPhone.
Preferred Orientation
Allows you to set your preferred screen orientation based on how you orient the phone. If you hold the phone in portrait orientation, the screen will show “Portrait”. If you hold the phone in landscape orientation, the screen will show “Landscape”. Select Set to set your preferred orientation.
Tilt Action
Determines whether moving the phone affects screen reorientation. Available options are Reorient display and No action.
When Reorient Display is selected, the screen will automatically reorient when you move it.
When No Action is selected, the screen will stay locked in the same orientation when you move it.
Data Logging
Enable Logging
Turns on data logging, allowing your device to collect language usage data which you can upload to the Realize Language website for web-based analysis.
Privacy Password
Allows you to set or change your data logging privacy password.
Clear Log
Clears usage data for the current person.
Realize Language Setup
Uploads data collected for a person to the Realize Language website for analysis.
Buttons
Activate on Release
When this setting is on, a button will not activate until released, rather than on selection.
Dwell Time
Controls the delay before a button press is recognized in case a user needs to slide across multiple buttons before pressing the intended button.
Release Time
Buttons: All buttons are disabled for specified period of time after each button activation to prevent accidental double button activations.
SDB: The SDB is disabled for the specified period of time after the user selects the SDB to prevent accidental speaking of words displayed in the SDB twice.
Force Font Size
Maintains s consistent font size for button labels. When this setting is off, the button label font size is automatically reduced as needed to allow the entire label to fit into the button area.
Highlight Touch
Briefly highlights the button when it is activated.
Gradient Fill
Gradually blends button colors into each other.
Gradient Saturation
Adjusts the saturation/opacity (intensity) of the gradient as you move the slider.
Moving the slider to the right makes colors appear more saturated/opaque (intense).
Moving the slider to the left makes colors appear less saturated/opaque (pale).
Hide All Icons
Hides the icons on all buttons, allowing only the text to appear. Note that hiding the button icons will also force the SDB setting “Show Icons” off.
Show Hidden Buttons
Displays buttons that have been hidden.
Show Grid
Displays a visible grid in blank button areas.
Allows you to add extra space around buttons. Select a margin size between 1 Point and 100 Point. The default size is None.
Hide Home Page Labels
Temporarily hides the core word labels on your home page buttons.
Prediction
Prediction Type
Allows you to select Learning + Static or Static only.
Learning + Static: Word prediction includes the ability to learn and add words to the word prediction dictionary. The settings that apply to learning are available.
Static only: Word prediction uses the word prediction dictionary. The settings that apply to learning are not available.
Learned Words
Tracks words either (1) added manually or (2) spoken in the vocabulary. These words are prioritized over the Static dictionary words.
Whiteboard
Disable drawing in split view
Prevents you from drawing on the whiteboard page when split view is enabled in the iOS settings.
Scale drawing in split view
Scales whiteboard drawings according to the relative size of the app page when split view is enabled the iOS settings.
Reload last drawing
Displays the most recent drawing made on the whiteboard when you open Whiteboard.
Autosave drawing
Automatically saves whiteboard drawings.
Head Tracking
Note: Head tracking is only available on iOS or iPadOS devices that have a front-facing TrueDepth® camera.
Enable Head Tracking
Turn head tracking on or off. When this option is on, you can use small head movements to control where the pointer moves on the screen. For details, see Head Tracking Access Method.
Social Networking
Note: This setting is available on non-dedicated devices only.
Allow Social Networking
Allows you to share text from the SDB with social networks.
Amp Connect
Select Amp
Selects your amplifier name to make a Bluetooth connection to the app software for getting proper battery status readings.
Set up Amp
Sets left and right speaker volume, bass, and treble.
Scanning
Scanning Enabled
Makes the scanning settings available. See Switch Scanning Setup.