Next Word Board: privacy and credits
A communication aid prototype for families. It is not a medical or therapy product and makes no clinical claims. Please work with your child's speech-language pathologist on vocabulary and layout.
Your data
- The words your child taps, the sentences spoken, your settings, your own words and photos are stored only in this browser on this device.
- There are no accounts or ads. Anonymous daily use counts are off by default. A grown-up may enable one daily count after this child speaks; no message, name, photo, recording, or device ID is included. Turn it off in Grown-up settings. Ordinary hosting logs may still record connection information.
- Photos you add are shrunk and kept on the device only. Spoken words use the voice built into your device unless a grown-up enables the optional local Kokoro voice.
- If you record a voice for a word, the browser asks for microphone permission. Recordings are kept on this device only, are used only to play that word, and are deleted with Erase.
- You can back up, move or erase everything from Grown-up settings. Clearing the browser's site data also erases it.
Optional local AI
The communication board works without AI. A grown-up can separately enable local sentence, voice, dictation and photo-matching tools. Each tool explains its purpose before any model download.
- Model files are downloaded from Hugging Face or jsDelivr only after a grown-up confirms. Those providers receive normal connection information such as the device's IP address.
- After download, sentence generation, Kokoro speech, Whisper transcription and photo matching run in this browser on this device.
- Whisper keeps a short recording only while it transcribes. The recording is discarded when transcription finishes or is cancelled, and the text must be reviewed before it can be used.
- The photo helper compares a reduced photo with approved board-word labels. It leaves the label blank when confidence is low and never adds a word without parent approval.
- Generated voice clips are cached per child for quicker replay and are deleted when that child's data is erased.
Optional Claude helper
Only when the app is opened inside Claude, a button can ask Claude to suggest a label and example sentences for a word or photo you add. The app names what will be sent and asks for confirmation immediately before each request. This button does not exist on this website.
Credits
- Picture symbols: OpenMoji by the OpenMoji contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Files are in the sym folder, unmodified.
- Font: Atkinson Hyperlegible, loaded from Google Fonts, falling back to your system font offline.
Feedback
Feedback link coming soon.