Talk to Me, Goose!

Hi, I’m Goose!

Talk to me, Goose!

-Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, Top Gun (1986), Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

What’s up with that?

Talk to me, Goose! Or, rather, I’ll talk to you (or FOR you, if you will). Just type or paste it in, and I’ll say it back to you in whichever voice you choose, or even your own.

In the search for a solution for an easy-to-use, high-quality, fast, and emotionally-rich text-to-speech tool, we were disappointed with what we found. Many of the tools were rigid in their design. They rendered voice poorly, with little intonation and emotion, or were slow and clunky.

Thus, Talk to Me, Goose! was born.

With more than dozens of voices to choose from, and even your own voice clone, when you need a “Wingman” to help, Talk to Me, Goose! is here.

If you want to find out more detail about the product features go here. But, first, go download it and try. It’s free to try. If you already have an ElevenLabs voice clone and want to connect it, you can subscribe to the Wingman tier for $4.99 per month to unlock all of the AI-enabled features for use with your voice clone.

But, they always say that seeing is believing though, so you can also check out the demo video to see what all the fuss is about.

Coming Soon

We have A LOT going on and coming soon. This includes Story Mode, new speech models coming from ElevenLabs that allow for even more expressive speech, and work we’re doing to build community. You should check it out. It’s pretty exciting.

Pricing & Availability

We are laser-focused on working towards making this solution as accessible and available to people living with ALS, in particular, as possible. To that end, we are working tirelessly to build partnerships and relationships that will allow us to offer Talk to Me, Goose! to people living with ALS who have an ElevenLabs voice clone for free. We’ve got a plan, and we’re working the plan.

In the meantime, for those of you who are currently living with ALS, if you already have an ElevenLabs voice clone, the pricing is $4.99 / month for a “Wingman” subscription. The Wingman subscription gives you full access to all of the features of the application and your voice clone. You also have access to any other voices in the library that you may choose to use as well. For example, you just might want to build and tell a story in a pirate voice!.

The Wingman subscription cost helps to offset our costs to serve the infrastructure for the application and all of the AI-enabled features. We are actively working to find a way to make this free to use for people like you, for people like us, really. Don’t forget, this application was built by a person living with ALS and their caregiver, (by a PALS/CALS team for a PALS). We get it.

If you are PALS, and you don’t yet have an ElevenLabs voice clone, we urge you to get one. You can work with Bridging Voice and / or the Scott-Morgan Foundation to get access to ElevenLabs to get one for free.

If you do not have an ElevenLabs voice clone, you can still use Talk to Me, Goose! Our subscription models unlock access to a large library of voices to use. You can choose the approximate number of minutes per month that you need. See our subscription tiers here. If you are a PALS who does not have an ElevenLabs voice clone, and maybe don’t have the recordings of your voice available to create one, that’s ok. Contact us here, and, as we work with our Foundation partners, we’ll work with you to try get you set up with the solution as well.

Uploading Your Banked Messages

If you’ve downloaded the app, and you’ve got pre-recorded messages stored on your computer’s hard drive, you can upload them directly into the app for playback on demand alongside speech that you generate in real time. To do so, log in here and follow the process! We’re very excited to have an integrated application for communication. If you want to send us feedback on other features that you’d like to see, give us your thoughts here.

Cutting Edge Technology

Working with the cutting-edge technology from ElevenLabs, Talk to Me, Goose!, is an AI-enabled text-to-speech platform that can be your mobile Wingman. or flight partner, when you need it.

Beyond Speech – Reconnect with People!

Beyond reconnecting with speech, it was clear that there is a need to reconnect with people too. In using an augmented and alternative communication solution there is an awkward pause in the flow of a conversation. You speak to me, and I type my response. It takes time. You tune out. You disengage. It’s awkward. How might we eliminate that awkward pause? Here’s where Talk to Me, Goose! is really special, in my opinion.

In the Top Gun movie, when Goose was gone, Merlin took his seat. Well, here we are. Merlin takes his seat once again. He’s here to help. He can take a few clicks – a topic area and a tone, and a few words to give you a suggestion of a full block of text to use in your response without all that typing. He’s here to be your Wingman and reduce all that typing. He’s here to reduce that awkward pause and allow you to reengage, to reconnect with people. We hope.

Give us feedback on it. That’s what we want, to hear from you. Let us know on the contact page.

Reconnecting with people is also about reducing fatigue, speeding up communications and alleviating stress. We think Merlin does all that too. Give it a try. On the iPad, Merlin even learns with you over time, surfacing increasingly relevant phrases that are semantically similar to your own text for you to use in contextually aware ways.

Wouldn’t a world where you didn’t have to type at all be cool?

What if I just want to try it?

You can just download the app and try it with a few minutes of free Text-To-Speech synthesis at no charge. If you want to play around for a while, just pick up some Pre-Flight bundles of tokens for $0.99 to play around in the cockpit for awhile, or go for a Short Hop, a little Commuter flight or take a Long Haul flight on your own. If you’re hooked, you can subscribe at different levels on a monthly basis. And, if you need a Wingman, there’s a special subscription model just for you to connect you to your very own voice clone with a very low monthly subscription fee just to use the service with no limits on access.

Tell me more about the motivation

You can read below about the motivation behind Talk to Me, Goose! In doing our research for the highest quality text-to-speech and Augmentative and Alternative Communication (“AAC”) and speech generating devices, we were left a little bit wanting for something that would provide an easy-to-use, mobile, that was fast and provided the most emotionally rich experience available. In building Talk to Me, Goose! we realized that there are lots of uses for a solution like this. So check it out, and let’s go!

It’s not just Augmented and Alternative Communication

Nope! Beyond the augmented and alternative communications (“AAC”) use case, Talk to Me, Goose! can also be used to do professional narration of videos, YouTube Shorts, podcasts, trainings and audio short story recordings. It can synthesize text up to approximately 5,000 characters per submission in about 30 different languages. With seamless integration to the leading voice synthesis technology provider, all you need to do is log in and go. We offer bundles of tokens or different subscription tiers tailored to meet your needs whether they are just having fun, narrating an occasional video, producing a periodic video, building high-quality regular programming for YouTube, Spotify or Apple Podcasts, or, like me, if you need to have a Wingman to help you out just navigating every day using your own voice. Check out our Bundles and Subscription Tiers and choose the flight plan or approach that is right for you.