Nada Kari

The Weaver of Sound

Apps

Instruments and tools from Nada Kari for your phone and tablet.

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Out now

VOCAB-80

A talking-word synthesizer for iPhone and iPad

Tap a pad and it talks, in the voice of a vintage speech chip, a robot, a vocoder or something stranger. Play single words, whole phrases, or the voice itself like an instrument.

100% of the profit from the app goes towards helping people in the community.

Free to download, with an optional £1.99 one-off unlock. Published by Play North West CIC.

VOCAB-80 word pads, with pitch, formant, speed and filter controlsVOCAB-80 phrase padsVOCAB-80 pads laid out as a keyboard in synth mode

What’s inside

  • 12 pads and 380 words to choose from
  • Whole phrases on a single pad
  • Synth mode: play the voice up and down the keyboard
  • 8 voice characters, from Vintage Digital to Alien and Vocoder
  • Pitch, formant, speed and filter, plus four macros
  • Delay, reverb, drive and bit-crush effects
  • 28 factory presets

Free to play

Download it free and play every pad, word, phrase, voice and effect. One payment of £1.99 unlocks recording and sharing, saving your own presets, and the Audio Unit plugin for GarageBand, AUM, Cubasis and Logic for iPad.

No subscription, no ads, no account and no tracking. It works offline and collects nothing.