Tiga Talk Speech Therapy Games App Reviews

This app is super cute and is a great activity for my preschooler! She thinks its really fun and loves making all the sounds.

My nephew wouldnt stop making the sounds even after we had stopped playing. Very cute and colorful, and it seems like the makers did their research.

I wished this was around when I was helping to teach my daughter to read and pronounce sounds. Its educational but also entertaining. This is a great tool and although my kids are older, they love playing with it on the ipod.

Fun app-the gameplay is unique (using your voice to move things) so it keeps kids interested even if theyre not working on speech therapy

So cute and really intuitive. You can tell the developers put a lot of research into this app. I also liked the feature for "grownups" where I can check up on lessons completed and choose games that focus on particular sounds. Recommended!

Whether your child is just learning to talk, or just needs practice better articulating their sounds, this game provides a fun and interactive way to do it. The instructions are simple enough for younger children to understand, while the game component provides enough challenge to keep older children interested. All in all a well put together app!

My 3 year old loves this app. He can use it completely independently, and is having fun practicing his sounds.

The program looks very promising, great graphics and activities but lacks the most important part. The ability to discern between a correct speech sound and incorrect sound. The program accepts most sounds as the correct sound regardless of what was produced. This regulates this app to be good for encouraging sound production as oppossed to reinforcing correct sound production. I will keep looking for an app that can do this . . . .Tiga Talk does not ..

Im so happy we found this!!! My 5 year old daughter loves playing these games on our iPad. Shes very shy and in groups of kids she hardly ever speaks, but after a few days she was giving her cousin lessons on how to say "th" properly :) I also appreciate that its full of positive feedback and doesnt tell her shes making the sounds incorrectly. Its all about trying, right? Im glad the people who made this realize that. Please, please, please make more apps like this one.

Great idea in theory but there is no differentiation between incorrect and correct productions. Even when I deliberately produced the incorrect sounds I got positive reinforcement for it. Although the games are fun I wouldnt recommend this app for correct speech sound production.

This is an interesting app. The voice recognition is far from perfect but my kid generally makes the attempt anyways. I have found that the game can hold his attention for reasonable periods of time and that he attempts sounds, something we have trouble getting him to do in other situations. More intersting I have found that when playing other iOS games he tries to mimic those sounds as well now!

***Mic is working on iOS 5 now, so re-submitting without that comment for the current version!*** What We Liked: My little girls fell for Tiga Talk hard and fast. They soon discovered its location on our iDevices, and I would find them making sounds very enthusiastically in front of the device in their efforts to propel a rocket ship, a boat, to pop bubbles, and to smash space rocks amongst other fun challenges. My five-year-old has articulation delays, so it means a lot to me that she enjoys practicing her sounds with this app. She quickly learned to tap on the mouth to see a video of the sound being said by a real person so she could model her own sound production from that video. She also naturally self-corrects, so if the animal says a sound and she doesn’t think hers is quite right, she’ll tap on the mouth, practice her own sound, and off she’ll go again. I love that the app lets you pick specific lessons and games to focus in on trouble sounds, but also allows children to go through the whole game from front to back when they’re feeling particularly ambitious! This is actually my girls’ favorite way to use Tiga Talk, though I do incorporate it into practice sessions with my daughter as well. Each lesson and game is short but packs a lot of sound repetitions in, a great fit for short attention spans. While Tiga Talk only does sounds in isolation, I really hope that we’ll see similar apps coming out for initial, medial, and final sounds in real words for children who are ready to move beyond Tiga Talk but who are highly motivated by the bright cartoons and quest-style storyline. What We Didn’t Like: Some of the letter sounds aren’t clipped and add a tiny bit of an ‘uh’ to the end of the sound, like ‘duh’ instead of just ‘d’. Some users have mentioned that the app responds equally well to incorrect pronunciation as it does to correct pronunciation, and this is an accurate observation. The app responds more to voice volume than it does to sound. This hasn’t been an issue for us because my girls try to be as accurate as possible when using this app – the honor system I suppose. I would like to see the option of setting up multiple users on this app. The statistics that track the number of lessons completed aren’t very useful if you have several children using it. Overall: Tiga Talk is an incredibly fun and engaging app that irresistibly draws children into practicing articulation skills in a voice-powered adventure. If you have a little one in the beginning stages of learning to pronounce any letter on its own, Tiga Talk will make the process so much more enjoyable for you both whether they are still learning these sounds in speech for the first time at age three, or if they are using the app for remedial speech practice at an older age. I received a promo code.

This app seemed very promising. However, I was extremely disappointed. It gives incorrect feedback for the targeted sound. Basically, if you make a sound, it praises you. You can make any sound at all. It even doesnt have to be within the same sound family. In fact you can cough and it will still give positive feedback. A waste of money.

My daughter loves this app. It gets her to practice sounds without noticing shes working at it, and I love that it praises all attempts to make a sound, not just the correct one (clearly an encouragement strategy, not a bug with the voice recognition like other reviewers thought). Recommended!

App was a hit with my son until it started crashing. Voice recognition is very poor on it and as long as you say something loud enough it thinks you are doing the tasks correctly. Waste of money as now it wont open.

The program crashes when trying to go to the menu. When producing /t/, the sound is voiceless. The fox produces it with a schwa which is incorrect. I have not gotten through the whole game because I cant access the menu. The game is an excellent idea, it just needs a few corrections. Dot p-slp

I downloaded this for my son because he has speech problems and thought this might be fun for him. It wont even load at all. Now Ive paid $1.99 for something he cant even use. DONT BOTHER until they get it fixed. Its a great idea, but isnt worth anything if it wont load or work.

Doesnt get past the loading screen. No warning for pre-iOS4 devices. Wasted $1.99.

My 2yo son has always been a little behind his friends when it comes to speech. Not just fewer words, but he says things "bye" but without the "b", and calls the iPad or iPhone the "I pew." I figured an app that would help his speech would be interesting to try, though I didnt know if it would keep his interest. I got TigaTalk late last night, and was surprised this morning to hear him repeating various sounds as directed by TigaTalk. How did this app get him to do it? By making fun games that are played by him repeating specific sounds. The games actually listen for your child to make the specified sound, which then does thing like throws balls to knock down blocks on screen. Theres a ton going on in this fairly large app, computer animation, footage of what appear to be puppets, traditional looking art, and different voices and character. There appears to be many many levels. And my son plays the speech games for quite awhile without losing interest. Weve played this on my iPad and iPhone 3GS and havent had any technical issues, Im not sure why others have reported problems. I think this is an outstanding app for helping kids develop their speech!

As a licensed and certified speech-language pathologist, the idea of this game seemed like it would be fun for my students. However, when I put the game on my iPad (which is what I use mostly for therapy), I was unable to access the menu. The screen simply went black. I tried the application on my older Touch. I was able to access the menu, change sounds, etc. However, the older touch does not have a built in mic. When I put in the auxilary mic, the sound was turned off. There are a few things I really like about the application. When it works, the menu button has a "grown-up" question that makes it so the child cant change sounds. There are a number of sounds that can be targeted as well which is wonderful. On the screen is a symbol of a mouth that when pushed, provides an example of a real mouth/tongue saying the sound. All in all, Im hopeful for this app. If I had a new touch it would probably work wonderfully. It does not currently work on iPads and it does not work on older the Touch.