NOVA chat 10 (10")
NOVA chat 10 offers the well known Chat Software on an Android platform. Like all "Chats", NOVA chat 10 offers a durable yet sleek portable design, with features that include a 10.1" display, switch scanning, Social Chat, IVONA speech synthesizer, and many other Chat features.
- New splash-resistant design exceeds, industry requirements for protection against solids and liquids
- Redesigned handle provides improved durability and portability for comfortable carrying
- A variety of vocabulary configurations provides options for each individual that uses our "Chat" systems. NOVA chat includes thousands of SymbolStix™ symbols and PCS™ symbols.
- Also included is a Kensington Sling bag to provide protection and portability for your NOVA chat device.
- Comes with 4GB Dual MICRO-USB Flash Drive.
With its familiar sleek, lightweight and portable design, this device is perfect for the easy-going, careful AAC communicator.
FEATURES
- High quality classic wrap adds a layer of protection to the device with a sleek, modern look
- New splash-resistant design exceeds, industry requirements for protection against solids and liquids
- Redesigned handle provides improved durability and portability for comfortable carrying
- Upgraded amp provides improved speaker quality for clearer communication in a variety of environments
- Front and rear-facing cameras allow for unique personalization of vocabularies
- Redesigned single port provides convenient, simultaneous charging of device and amp
- Fully-adjustable stand allows for a wide range of angles that stay in place
- Easy-to-swap wrap colors in blue, grey, green and purple are included with purchase
SPECIFICATIONS
- 26x22x4cms, with handle
- Weighs 1088 grams
- 24cm (9.7"), 2048 x 1536 pixel display
Speech Options
The NOVA chat comes with 2 speech engines, Acapela and Ivona.
Acapela is a Text-to-Speech engine option available for NOVA chat.
4 Australian Voices;
Tyler: AUS Male
Lisa: AUS Female
Liam: AUS Boy (child)
Olivia: AUS Girl (child)
17 English Voices;
Graham: UK Male
Peter: UK Male
Nizareng: UK Male
Ryan: US Male
Micah: US Male
Rod: US Male
Saul: US Male
Will: US Maile
Lucy: UK Female
Rachel: UK Female
Heather: US Female
Laura: US Female
Tracy: US Female
Karen: US Female
Sharona: US Female
Kenny: US Boy (child)
Nelly: US Girl (child)
Ivona - IVONA Text to Speech prides themselves with leading the field with natural voice quality and inflection.
2 Australian voices;
Russell: AUS Male
Nicole: AUS Female
11 English voices:
Joey: US Male
Eric: US Male
Kendra: US Female
Kimberly: US Female
Jennifer: US Female
Salli: US Teen Female
Justin: US Child Male
Ivy: US Child Female
Brian: UK Male
Amy: UK Female
Emma: UK Female
Standard Vocabulary Files on NOVA Chat model
NOVA chats are pre-loaded with 57 different vocabularies including the following;
4 Basic
Basic Scan
Communication Journey: Aphasia
Explore Access
Intermediate Scan
Multichat 15
myCore
myQuickChat
Spelling
VocabPC Adolescent
WordPower (formerly called ChatPower)
Symbols Sets
The NOVA chat 10 includes both Symbolstix and PCS Symbols.
PCS
PCS symbols are very popular in classrooms and clinics throughout the world. These symbols have been created by Mayer-Johnson and are used in Mayer-Johnson's BoardMaker and Speaking Dynamically applications. Several thousand symbols represent vocabulary for a wide variety of school, home and work activities.
Symbolstix
SymbolStix is a dynamic symbol set created by N2Y for use in its Internet weekly newspaper, News-2-You, and its new online curriculum, Unique Learning System. Generic activities and persons are depicted as lively, vibrant stick Figures - stick figures with "an attitude." (Actual persons incorporated in SymbolStix are drawn as easily recognizable characterizations.) The current suite includes over 4,000 individual drawings/icons.
For more information on SymbolStix, visit the SymbolStix website.
Sling Bag Accessory Included
- The adjustable Vecro strap allows you to set your bag in the most comfortable position, according to your height
- The inside compartment is very well padded, therefore your NOVA chat will be protected from shocks and bumps
- The inside accessory pocket is roomy enough to hold extra accessories
- The bag features a hanger tab
NEW 3 YEAR WARRANTY includes PHYSICAL DAMAGE & BATTERY REPLACEMENT + FREE RETURN FREIGHT for REPAIRS
- 10" (24cm) WSVGA (capacitive touch screen)
- Word Prediction
- Abbreviation Expansion
- SymbolStix™ and PCS™ symbols are both included
- Updated user interface
- Single and dual switch scanning
- Combination of ChatPC and TouchChat functionality
- Social Chat shares text easily with Facebook and Twitter
- Improved file transferring (more stable/quicker transfers)
- NOVA chat Editor (CD)
- Vocabulary files for both literate and emerging literate clients
- Acapela and Ivona synthesized speech (including teen and child voice)
- Built-in camera 3.0 Megapixel Auto Focus w/flash
- Color shells included
- Carry Case (sling bag) included
- Size: 26x22x4 cms
- Weight: 1088 grams
- 3 year warranty
- Display Size 24 cms
- Digitized Speech Memory n/a
- Battery Life up to 10 hours (depending on usage and settings)
Designed for individuals who will primarily be using symbols for communication, the NOVA chat 10 has keyboard pages for spelling, and are "open" systems, meaning you can also run other Android applications on these devices. For individuals with existing or emerging literacy skills this model comes with 10,000, 30,000 and 60,000 word dictionaries.
Numerous keyboard pages with and without spelling prediction are included in the pre-stored vocabulary files.
The NOVA chat 10 also includes abbreviation-expansion, a feature that allows you to encode a word, phrase or sentence under a short sequence of letters, and also provide the capability to load and save text files.
FEATURES
- High quality classic wrap adds a layer of protection to the device with a sleek, modern look
- Upgraded amp provides improved speaker quality for clearer communication in a variety of environments
- Front and rear-facing cameras allow for unique personalization of vocabularies
- Redesigned single port provides convenient, simultaneous charging of device and amp
- Fully-adjustable stand allows for a wide range of angles that stay in place
- Easy-to-swap wrap colors in blue, gray, green and purple are included with purchase
Dedicated Option - Dedicated devices are devices that can only be used as communication devices, i.e. no other applications can be run on the devices. Please specify this option at time of ordering if needed. If in the future after purchase you require the device to be changed from dedicated to non-dedicated or vice-versa, just contact us and we can orgnaise this change for you at no cost.
