Speak Up For Parkinson's

I was hoping for more. This app feels like it was developed by junior high school kids. Not very helpful. Very limited for someone in the early stages of Parkinson’s. Maybe it’s much better for those in later stages. I was hoping for something to help the quality of the voice recognition on Siri. I find that Siri makes constant errors when I dictate and I was hoping that this app would educate me and help me to resolve this issue.

The Speak Up for Parkinson’s app has been a great help to me. I’ve had Parkinson’s since 2008, and have used it regularly, without a problem. Recently, however, when I have opened the app, it cannot open my iPad’s camera or microphone. I have tried uninstalling the program and reinstalling it, and I get the same result. This makes me act useless. I am disappointed, and I hope there is a better app in the works.

Nice idea for an app. It's good for words and phrases. It's great to have the video of the speaker with the biofeedback. However, the app crashes frequently. The target volume is too high when the mic is 15-18" from the iPad speaker. The phrase bank is way too small. (We got duplicates in <5 trials.) It should include paragraphs and poems and such for reading. I would love to see a graph with volume on the Y-axis and time on the X-axis (for speakers whose intensity drops at the end of his phrases.) Looking forward to version 2.0!