Pip Talk: Speech Practice

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About this app

Pip Talk turns speech sound practice into a game. Your child's voice moves the game: hold a long "ssss" to blow up a balloon, say "p p p" to drive a little car, keep a steady voice to fly a rocket. Five minutes a day, with a grown-up nearby.

Pip Talk is free, with no ads and no accounts. All speech practice stays free. For grown-ups there is an optional one-time Pip Plus (extra games, buddies and sticker pages), found only behind the parental gate.

HOW IT WORKS
• Pick the sounds your child is working on: p, b, m, t, d, k, g, f, s, sh, ch, l, r and th (English).
• Each sound follows the classic practice ladder: listen, sound alone, syllables, words (start, end, middle), phrases, then sentences.
• Pip moves up a level when your child gets 8 of the last 10 tries right, and mixes in review words so practice doesn't repeat.
• After each try, Pip checks it on the phone. If it isn't right yet, Pip says the word slowly, shows how to make the sound, and gives one more try.
• Prefer to judge yourself? Switch on "Grown-up checks each try" and rate every try with a press and hold.

WHAT KIDS LOVE
• Six voice games: Balloon, Car, Rocket, Flower, Frog and Kite.
• Pip the chick hatches from an egg and grows as your child gets sounds right.
• Short reward games after practice: Memory Match and Feed Pip.
• Six toy buddies to choose from, a sticker book with 36 stickers, and a gift to open at the end of each session.
• A warm, friendly voice for Pip, soft music and toy sounds. Everything goes quiet while the microphone listens.

FOR GROWN-UPS (behind a parental gate)
• Progress for each sound and step.
• "Then vs Now": hear your child's first good try of the week next to an older one.
• Tips for each sound: how to make it and how to judge a try.
• A PDF report of the last 30 days that you can share with your child's speech therapist.
• A microphone test with a sensitivity setting, tap mode for phones without a working mic, and a backup file you save yourself.
• Optional one-time Pip Plus: more play-break games (including Bubble Pop), three bonus buddies and two bonus sticker pages, and it supports the app's development. All speech practice stays free without it.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• Practice works offline. Words are checked by the phone's own offline speech recognition. Your child's voice never leaves the phone.
• Voice clips for "Then vs Now" stay on the phone, and you can delete them at any time.
• No ads, anywhere in the app. Pip Plus is bought through Google Play, only in the grown-up area; we never see payment details.
• Optional: if your child's speech therapist uses Pip Talk, a grown-up can choose to share daily practice counts with them using a link code. No names and no audio are ever shared, and you can stop sharing at any time.

GOOD TO KNOW
• Pip Talk is a practice tool, not therapy or a diagnosis. If you are worried about your child's speech, talk to a speech-language pathologist.
• Designed with input from a speech-language pathologist.
• Phone speech recognition is built to understand what a child means, so Pip's "right" means "understandable", not "every sound perfect". For precise practice, use "Grown-up checks each try".
• Word checking needs the phone's offline speech model for English (you can download it from Settings on Android 13 and newer). Without it, Pip judges tries by voice length and steadiness.
• Made for children about 3 to 7, playing with a parent, carer or teacher.

Questions or ideas? Write to us at [e-mail]. We read every message.

What’s new

• Games are open any time, with 3 new games: Peekaboo, Colour Sort and Odd One Out
• Urdu words for 12 sounds
• Short, child-safe ads may now appear between games (never during practice). Pip Plus removes them.
• Clearer buttons and text